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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. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






2. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






5. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






6. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






9. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






10. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






13. Herman Melville was known as...






14. Horace Mann fought for...






15. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






16. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






18. Renaissance means?






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






20. Who invented the cotton gin?






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






22. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






23. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






24. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






25. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






28. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






29. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






30. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






31. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






32. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






34. Dred Scott was...






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






36. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






38. Walt Whitman was known as...






39. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






42. Columbus sailed for what country?






43. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






45. Currier and Ives were known as...






46. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






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






50. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...