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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. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






3. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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4. Columbus sailed for what country?






5. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






9. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






11. Dred Scott was...






12. Herman Melville was known as...






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






14. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






15. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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






19. Dorothea Dix reformed...






20. Walt Whitman was known as...






21. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






22. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






24. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






25. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






26. Who was first to discover the new world?






27. Who wrote 'Walden'?






28. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






31. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






32. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






33. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






36. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






37. Horace Mann fought for...






38. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






40. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






41. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






42. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






43. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






44. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






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






48. The temperance movement regulated what?






49. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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