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