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