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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. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






3. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






4. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






7. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






8. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






10. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






11. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






12. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






13. Renaissance means?






14. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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15. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






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






19. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






21. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






23. Currier and Ives were known as...






24. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






26. Walt Whitman was known as...






27. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






29. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






31. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






33. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






34. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






35. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






37. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






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






41. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






43. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






44. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






45. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






46. Columbus sailed for what country?






47. Horace Mann fought for...






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






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






50. Herman Melville was known as...