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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 was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?






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






3. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






5. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






6. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






7. Walt Whitman was known as...






8. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






9. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






10. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






11. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






13. Horace Mann fought for...






14. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






15. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






16. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






18. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






21. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






23. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






24. Dred Scott was...






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






26. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






27. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






29. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






31. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






34. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






35. Columbus sailed for what country?






36. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






37. Renaissance means?






38. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






39. Herman Melville was known as...






40. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






42. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






44. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






45. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






47. Dorothea Dix reformed...






48. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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