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CLEP U.S. History
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?
Did not free slaves in Border States
A Transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
Interchangeable parts
2. Who was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Prisons and insane-asylums
A lawyer
Walt Whitman
3. Who gave the sermon 'City upon a Hill'?
Henry David Thoreau
Framers
John Winthrop
John Dickenson
4. What were the names of Columbus' ships?
A Dark Romantic
A romantic
Nina - Pinta - Santa Maria
George Whitefield
5. Who wrote 'Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There'?
A Transcendentalist
T.S. Arthur
Interchangeable parts
John Jay
6. Dorothea Dix reformed...
George Whitefield
Framers
A romantic
Prisons and insane-asylums
7. Who was first to discover the new world?
Vikings
Thomas Paine
John Jay
John Winthrop
8. Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Increased tariffs on imported goods
A Transcendentalist
Harriet Tubman
9. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?
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10. Walt Whitman was known as...
10%
Rebirth
A Romantic
A Transcendentalist
11. What percentage of the civil war army was African American?
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
Alcohol
Ulysses S. Grant
10%
12. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...
Alcohol
Increased tariffs on imported goods
A Transcendentalist
XYZ Affair
13. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?
Walt Whitman
T.S. Arthur
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
Prisons and insane-asylums
14. Henry David Thoreau was known as...
10%
A Transcendentalist
Education reform
Walt Whitman
15. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...
A Dark Romantic
2nd Amendment
Framers
Prisons and insane-asylums
16. The idea that one branch of government is supervised by another is called...
Thus always to tyrants
A Dark Romantic
Education reform
Checks and balances
17. The men who attended the Constitutional Convention to create a government were known as:
1st Amendment
Framers
T.S. Arthur
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
18. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?
A Dark Romantic
Ulysses S. Grant
Thus always to tyrants
2nd Amendment
19. What is one of the greatest discoveries of the time in manufacturing?
Interchangeable parts
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Paine
Francis Scott Key
20. Columbus sailed for what country?
Prisons and insane-asylums
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2nd Amendment
Spain
21. Which Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial?
6th Amendment
2nd Amendment
John Jay
A Romantic
22. When the French demanded tribute from America before speaking with ambassadors it was called...
XYZ Affair
Checks and balances
T.S. Arthur
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
23. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Paine
Vikings
Alcohol
24. The gold rush of 1849 sent settlers to what state?
Prisons and insane-asylums
Increased tariffs on imported goods
California
Education reform
25. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?
The accounting relating to slaves versus free people
5th Amendment
John Wilkes Booth
Walt Whitman
26. While men were away at war - women did what?
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
A Romantic
XYZ Affair
Creator of lithographs
27. Lincoln was assaassinated by?
T.S. Arthur
John Wilkes Booth
A Dark Romantic
John Winthrop
28. Which preacher did skits and dramatizations in his sermons?
Francis Scott Key
A Dark Romantic
George Whitefield
5th Amendment
29. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?
George Whitefield
Eli Whitney
John Jay
10%
30. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?
5th Amendment
John Jay
Walt Whitman
10th Amendment
31. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...
6th Amendment
A Dark Romantic
Henry David Thoreau
Increased tariffs on imported goods
32. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...
A Transcendentalist
A romantic
Creator of lithographs
Interchangeable parts
33. Louisa May Alcott was known as...
2nd Amendment
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
A romantic
John Dickenson
34. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?
Prisons and insane-asylums
A Transcendentalist
Alcohol
Thomas Paine
35. Which Amendment guarantees due process?
10%
Spain
5th Amendment
John Dickenson
36. The Morill Tariff Act did what?
A lawyer
Thus always to tyrants
A Transcendentalist
Increased tariffs on imported goods
37. Which Amendment is about the right to bear arms?
Framers
Spain
1st Amendment
2nd Amendment
38. She called for social and political equality for women.
The accounting relating to slaves versus free people
A Romantic
1st Amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
39. Which Amendment protects freedom of religion - speech - press - etc.?
A Romantic
1st Amendment
Education reform
A Transcendentalist
40. Herman Melville was known as...
A Transcendentalist
Nina - Pinta - Santa Maria
Harriet Tubman
A Dark Romantic
41. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...
A Romantic
Vikings
Interchangeable parts
John Wilkes Booth
42. The temperance movement regulated what?
A Dark Romantic
Alcohol
Henry David Thoreau
A romantic
43. Horace Mann fought for...
A Transcendentalist
Education reform
5th Amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
44. Currier and Ives were known as...
Vikings
A Transcendentalist
T.S. Arthur
Creator of lithographs
45. Dred Scott was...
Thomas Paine
A Dark Romantic
A Romantic
A lawyer
46. Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
Nina - Pinta - Santa Maria
Framers
A Transcendentalist
Harriet Beecher Stowe
47. The person who assassinated Lincoln shouted the following after committing the murder 'Sic simper tyrannis'. What does it mean?
Eli Whitney
Ran farms - worked as nurses - did manual labor - and worked as spies.
Francis Scott Key
Thus always to tyrants
48. Who wrote 'Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania'?
1st Amendment
Vikings
John Dickenson
Eli Whitney
49. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?
Education reform
Francis Scott Key
10%
T.S. Arthur
50. Who wrote 'Walden'?
Henry David Thoreau
10th Amendment
2nd Amendment
5th Amendment