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






2. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






3. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






4. Dorothea Dix reformed...






5. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






6. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






7. Walt Whitman was known as...






8. Herman Melville was known as...






9. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






10. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






12. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






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






16. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






18. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






19. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






22. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






23. Currier and Ives were known as...






24. The temperance movement regulated what?






25. Renaissance means?






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






27. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






28. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






30. Dred Scott was...






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






32. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






33. Horace Mann fought for...






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






35. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






37. Who wrote 'Walden'?






38. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






40. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






41. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






42. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






43. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






44. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






45. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


46. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






49. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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