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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. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






3. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






4. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






5. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






8. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






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






12. Columbus sailed for what country?






13. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






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






17. The temperance movement regulated what?






18. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






19. Herman Melville was known as...






20. Dorothea Dix reformed...






21. Dred Scott was...






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






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






24. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






26. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






27. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






28. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






29. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






30. Who invented the cotton gin?






31. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






33. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






34. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






37. Renaissance means?






38. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






41. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






42. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






43. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






44. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






45. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






46. Horace Mann fought for...






47. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






49. Walt Whitman was known as...






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