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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. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






2. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






4. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






7. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






8. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






9. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






10. Dred Scott was...






11. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






12. Walt Whitman was known as...






13. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






14. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






17. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






19. Who was first to discover the new world?






20. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






21. Herman Melville was known as...






22. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






23. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






25. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






28. The temperance movement regulated what?






29. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






31. Renaissance means?






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






33. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






34. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






36. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






38. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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






42. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






44. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






45. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






47. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






48. Columbus sailed for what country?






49. Who invented the cotton gin?






50. Currier and Ives were known as...