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