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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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1. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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2. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






4. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






5. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






8. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






9. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






10. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






11. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






12. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






13. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






15. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






17. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






20. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






21. Currier and Ives were known as...






22. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






23. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






24. Herman Melville was known as...






25. Horace Mann fought for...






26. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






28. Columbus sailed for what country?






29. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






30. The temperance movement regulated what?






31. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






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






35. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






38. Dred Scott was...






39. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






41. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






42. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






45. Renaissance means?






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






47. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






48. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






50. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...