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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. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






2. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






5. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






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






9. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






10. Renaissance means?






11. Currier and Ives were known as...






12. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






13. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






14. Who invented the cotton gin?






15. Columbus sailed for what country?






16. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






17. Dred Scott was...






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






19. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






20. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






21. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






22. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






25. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






26. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






29. Horace Mann fought for...






30. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






31. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






33. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






35. Walt Whitman was known as...






36. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






38. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






41. Herman Melville was known as...






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






43. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






44. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






45. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






47. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






48. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






50. Lincoln was assaassinated by?