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