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