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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






4. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






5. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






6. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






7. Herman Melville was known as...






8. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






9. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






12. Dorothea Dix reformed...






13. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






15. Renaissance means?






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






17. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






19. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






20. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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






24. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






25. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






27. The temperance movement regulated what?






28. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






30. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






31. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






33. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






34. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






35. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






36. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






37. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






39. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






41. Dred Scott was...






42. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






44. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






45. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






47. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






49. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






50. The Morill Tariff Act did what?