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