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