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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. She called for social and political equality for women.






2. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






4. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






6. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






9. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






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






13. Horace Mann fought for...






14. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






15. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






16. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






19. Herman Melville was known as...






20. Currier and Ives were known as...






21. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






22. Who was first to discover the new world?






23. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






24. The temperance movement regulated what?






25. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






26. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






29. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






30. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






32. Renaissance means?






33. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






34. Dorothea Dix reformed...






35. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






36. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






38. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






40. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






42. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






43. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






45. Who wrote 'Walden'?






46. Dred Scott was...






47. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






48. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






50. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?