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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 preacher did skits and dramatizations in his sermons?






2. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






3. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






4. Renaissance means?






5. Dred Scott was...






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






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






8. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






9. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






10. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






13. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






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






17. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






18. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






19. Who was first to discover the new world?






20. Herman Melville was known as...






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






22. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






26. Dorothea Dix reformed...






27. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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28. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






30. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






31. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






32. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






33. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






35. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






36. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






38. Who wrote 'Walden'?






39. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






41. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






43. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






44. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






45. Horace Mann fought for...






46. Columbus sailed for what country?






47. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






49. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?