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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






2. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






3. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






5. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






7. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






9. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






10. Dred Scott was...






11. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






12. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






13. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






14. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






15. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






16. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






17. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






20. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






22. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






23. Columbus sailed for what country?






24. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






25. Horace Mann fought for...






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






27. Renaissance means?






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






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






30. Herman Melville was known as...






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






32. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






34. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






37. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






40. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






41. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






43. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






46. The temperance movement regulated what?






47. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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48. Walt Whitman was known as...






49. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






50. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...







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