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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. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






2. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






3. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






4. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






7. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






9. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






11. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






13. Dorothea Dix reformed...






14. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






15. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






16. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






17. Dred Scott was...






18. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






20. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






22. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






24. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






25. Who invented the cotton gin?






26. Walt Whitman was known as...






27. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






28. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






29. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






31. Renaissance means?






32. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






35. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






36. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






37. Who was first to discover the new world?






38. Horace Mann fought for...






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






40. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






42. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






44. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






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






48. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






50. Herman Melville was known as...