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