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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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1. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






3. Currier and Ives were known as...






4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






6. Dred Scott was...






7. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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8. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






9. Renaissance means?






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






11. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






12. Herman Melville was known as...






13. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






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






18. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






19. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






21. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






24. Columbus sailed for what country?






25. Horace Mann fought for...






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






27. Dorothea Dix reformed...






28. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






30. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






32. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






33. Walt Whitman was known as...






34. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






36. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






37. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






38. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






39. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






41. The temperance movement regulated what?






42. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






43. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






46. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






49. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?