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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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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. The temperance movement regulated what?






2. Dred Scott was...






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






4. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






5. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






6. Herman Melville was known as...






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






8. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






9. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






11. Columbus sailed for what country?






12. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






13. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






14. Walt Whitman was known as...






15. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






16. Who invented the cotton gin?






17. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






18. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






20. Dorothea Dix reformed...






21. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






22. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






23. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






25. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






27. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






28. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






29. Currier and Ives were known as...






30. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






31. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






35. Who wrote 'Walden'?






36. Who was first to discover the new world?






37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






39. Renaissance means?






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






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






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






43. Horace Mann fought for...






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






45. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






49. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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