Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Who was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?






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






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






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






6. Renaissance means?






7. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






8. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






9. The temperance movement regulated what?






10. Columbus sailed for what country?






11. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






12. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






13. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






14. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






17. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






18. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






19. Who invented the cotton gin?






20. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






24. Dorothea Dix reformed...






25. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






26. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






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






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






31. Herman Melville was known as...






32. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






33. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






35. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






36. Who was first to discover the new world?






37. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


38. Horace Mann fought for...






39. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






40. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






41. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






42. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






44. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






45. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






48. Dred Scott was...






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






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