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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. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






2. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






3. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






6. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






7. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






8. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






10. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






11. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






14. Dorothea Dix reformed...






15. The temperance movement regulated what?






16. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






17. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






18. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






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






22. Who wrote 'Walden'?






23. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






24. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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






28. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






29. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






30. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






31. Dred Scott was...






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






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






34. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






36. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






38. Renaissance means?






39. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






40. Walt Whitman was known as...






41. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






43. Who was first to discover the new world?






44. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






45. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






47. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






50. Lincoln was assaassinated by?