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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
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. When the French demanded tribute from America before speaking with ambassadors it was called...






2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






4. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






5. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






7. Who was first to discover the new world?






8. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






11. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






13. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






14. The temperance movement regulated what?






15. Dred Scott was...






16. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






18. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






19. Renaissance means?






20. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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






24. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






26. Walt Whitman was known as...






27. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






28. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






29. Columbus sailed for what country?






30. Horace Mann fought for...






31. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






32. Herman Melville was known as...






33. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






34. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






36. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






38. Currier and Ives were known as...






39. Who wrote 'Walden'?






40. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






41. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






44. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






46. Who invented the cotton gin?






47. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






48. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






49. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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