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






2. Dorothea Dix reformed...






3. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






4. The temperance movement regulated what?






5. Horace Mann fought for...






6. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






8. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






10. Dred Scott was...






11. Who invented the cotton gin?






12. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






14. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






15. Herman Melville was known as...






16. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






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






20. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






22. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






23. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






24. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






26. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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27. Renaissance means?






28. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






30. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






31. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






33. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






34. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






35. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






38. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






39. Who wrote 'Walden'?






40. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






42. Columbus sailed for what country?






43. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






44. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






47. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






49. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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