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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






2. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






3. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






4. Horace Mann fought for...






5. Renaissance means?






6. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






7. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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8. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






9. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






12. Who wrote 'Walden'?






13. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






16. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






17. Dorothea Dix reformed...






18. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






19. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






22. Who was first to discover the new world?






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






24. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






27. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






30. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






31. Dred Scott was...






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






33. Herman Melville was known as...






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






35. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






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






39. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






40. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






42. Who invented the cotton gin?






43. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






44. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






46. Walt Whitman was known as...






47. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






48. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






49. Columbus sailed for what country?






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