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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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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. The gold rush of 1849 sent settlers to what state?






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






3. Currier and Ives were known as...






4. Horace Mann fought for...






5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






6. Which preacher did skits and dramatizations in his sermons?






7. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






8. Walt Whitman was known as...






9. The men who attended the Constitutional Convention to create a government were known as:






10. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






11. Who wrote 'Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There'?






12. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






13. When the French demanded tribute from America before speaking with ambassadors it was called...






14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






15. Dred Scott was...






16. Dorothea Dix reformed...






17. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






18. The temperance movement regulated what?






19. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






20. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






21. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






22. Who was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?






23. Herman Melville was known as...






24. Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?






25. Who was first to discover the new world?






26. Which Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial?






27. Columbus sailed for what country?






28. Renaissance means?






29. She called for social and political equality for women.






30. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






31. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






32. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






33. The idea that one branch of government is supervised by another is called...






34. Which Amendment is about the right to bear arms?






35. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






36. What is one of the greatest discoveries of the time in manufacturing?






37. What percentage of the civil war army was African American?






38. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






39. Who invented the cotton gin?






40. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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41. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






42. Which Amendment protects freedom of religion - speech - press - etc.?






43. Who wrote 'Walden'?






44. The person who assassinated Lincoln shouted the following after committing the murder 'Sic simper tyrannis'. What does it mean?






45. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






46. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






47. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






48. Who wrote 'Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania'?






49. Who gave the sermon 'City upon a Hill'?






50. While men were away at war - women did what?