U.S. HISTORY 2 CLEP ACTUAL EXAM PAPER
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED
A+
◉ The Gospel of Wealth. Answer: (1889) article by Carnegie that
describes the philanthropic responsibility of self-made millionaires
◉ Social Gospel. Answer: Christian intellectual movement in early
1900s to apply Christian ethics to social powers, especially issues of
social justice (economic inequality, alcoholism, crime, child labor,
etc)
◉ Social Darwinism. Answer: the reason why rich businessmen
thought themselves as superior; movement led by Herbert Spencer
and Graham Sumner (contrasted Social Gospel)
◉ Progressive Era. Answer: 1890s-1920s Reformers proposed
changes in: civil service, home rules for cities, city
manager/government, nonpartisan elections
◉ Anticombination laws in the late 1880s. Answer: response to the
use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies
,◉ Benjamin Harrison. Answer: 1889-1893
-McKinley tariff (high)
-Sherman antitrust act
-populist part emerges
◉ Grover Cleveland. Answer: 1893-1897
-economic panic (british banks go down
-wilson gorman tariff to reduce mckinley
-plessy v ferguson
◉ William Mckinley. Answer: 1897-1901
-spanish american war
-Treaty of Paris (gain Guam, PR, and Phillipines)
◉ Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Answer: 1901-1909
-Republican
-Square Deal
-Anthracite Coal Strike
-Platt Amendment
-Panama canal
-Collary to add onto Monroe doctrine
-Pure food and drug act; meat inspection act
,◉ William Taft. Answer: 1909-1913
-Republican
-fired Gifford Pincot
◉ Woodrow Wilson. Answer: 1913-1921
-Democrat
-New Freedom Campaign
-Underwood simmons act 1913
-Federal Reserve Act 1913
-WWI
-14 points
◉ Warren Harding. Answer: 1921-1923
-Republican
-Return to Normalcy
-Emergency Quota Act 1921
◉ Calcin Coolidge. Answer: 1923-1929
-republican
-Scopes Trial 1925
-National Origins Act 1924
, -Kellogg Braind Act 1928
-ERA fails
◉ Herbert Hoover. Answer: 1929-1933
-Republican
-Hawley smoot tariff
-Stimson Doctrine 1931
-Depresson (stock market, black tuesday)
◉ Franklin D. Roosevelt. Answer: 1933-1945
-Democrat
-New Deal
-Wagner Act 1935
-Neutrality Acts 1935-1939
-Lend Lease Act
-Atlantic Charter conference with Churchill
PearlHarbor
◉ Harry Truman. Answer: 1945-1953
-Democrat
-Postdam Conference
-drops bombs
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED
A+
◉ The Gospel of Wealth. Answer: (1889) article by Carnegie that
describes the philanthropic responsibility of self-made millionaires
◉ Social Gospel. Answer: Christian intellectual movement in early
1900s to apply Christian ethics to social powers, especially issues of
social justice (economic inequality, alcoholism, crime, child labor,
etc)
◉ Social Darwinism. Answer: the reason why rich businessmen
thought themselves as superior; movement led by Herbert Spencer
and Graham Sumner (contrasted Social Gospel)
◉ Progressive Era. Answer: 1890s-1920s Reformers proposed
changes in: civil service, home rules for cities, city
manager/government, nonpartisan elections
◉ Anticombination laws in the late 1880s. Answer: response to the
use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies
,◉ Benjamin Harrison. Answer: 1889-1893
-McKinley tariff (high)
-Sherman antitrust act
-populist part emerges
◉ Grover Cleveland. Answer: 1893-1897
-economic panic (british banks go down
-wilson gorman tariff to reduce mckinley
-plessy v ferguson
◉ William Mckinley. Answer: 1897-1901
-spanish american war
-Treaty of Paris (gain Guam, PR, and Phillipines)
◉ Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Answer: 1901-1909
-Republican
-Square Deal
-Anthracite Coal Strike
-Platt Amendment
-Panama canal
-Collary to add onto Monroe doctrine
-Pure food and drug act; meat inspection act
,◉ William Taft. Answer: 1909-1913
-Republican
-fired Gifford Pincot
◉ Woodrow Wilson. Answer: 1913-1921
-Democrat
-New Freedom Campaign
-Underwood simmons act 1913
-Federal Reserve Act 1913
-WWI
-14 points
◉ Warren Harding. Answer: 1921-1923
-Republican
-Return to Normalcy
-Emergency Quota Act 1921
◉ Calcin Coolidge. Answer: 1923-1929
-republican
-Scopes Trial 1925
-National Origins Act 1924
, -Kellogg Braind Act 1928
-ERA fails
◉ Herbert Hoover. Answer: 1929-1933
-Republican
-Hawley smoot tariff
-Stimson Doctrine 1931
-Depresson (stock market, black tuesday)
◉ Franklin D. Roosevelt. Answer: 1933-1945
-Democrat
-New Deal
-Wagner Act 1935
-Neutrality Acts 1935-1939
-Lend Lease Act
-Atlantic Charter conference with Churchill
PearlHarbor
◉ Harry Truman. Answer: 1945-1953
-Democrat
-Postdam Conference
-drops bombs
