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