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