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