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






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






3. Who wrote 'Walden'?






4. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






6. Dred Scott was...






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






8. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






11. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






14. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






16. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






18. Herman Melville was known as...






19. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






21. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






22. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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23. Renaissance means?






24. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






25. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






28. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






30. The temperance movement regulated what?






31. Horace Mann fought for...






32. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






35. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






36. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






37. Columbus sailed for what country?






38. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






41. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






43. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






44. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






45. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






46. Walt Whitman was known as...






47. Who was first to discover the new world?






48. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






49. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






50. Dorothea Dix reformed...