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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who gave the sermon 'City upon a Hill'?






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






3. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






6. Horace Mann fought for...






7. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






8. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






10. Herman Melville was known as...






11. Who wrote 'Walden'?






12. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






14. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






16. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






18. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






20. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






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






24. Renaissance means?






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






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






27. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






29. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






30. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






31. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






33. Currier and Ives were known as...






34. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






35. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






36. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






37. Columbus sailed for what country?






38. Walt Whitman was known as...






39. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






40. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






41. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






43. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






44. Dred Scott was...






45. Who invented the cotton gin?






46. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






48. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






49. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






50. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?