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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






5. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






7. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






8. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






9. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






10. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






11. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






14. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






15. Dorothea Dix reformed...






16. Horace Mann fought for...






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






18. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






20. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






22. Renaissance means?






23. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






24. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






27. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






29. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






32. Currier and Ives were known as...






33. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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34. Who wrote 'Walden'?






35. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






36. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






37. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






38. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






39. The temperance movement regulated what?






40. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






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






44. Dred Scott was...






45. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






47. Herman Melville was known as...






48. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






50. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?