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