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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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1. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






5. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






8. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






11. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






12. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






13. The temperance movement regulated what?






14. Currier and Ives were known as...






15. Who invented the cotton gin?






16. Who was first to discover the new world?






17. Renaissance means?






18. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






20. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






22. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






23. Walt Whitman was known as...






24. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






25. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






27. Dred Scott was...






28. Who wrote 'Walden'?






29. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






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






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






34. Dorothea Dix reformed...






35. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






36. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






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






40. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






41. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






42. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






43. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






44. Columbus sailed for what country?






45. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






47. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






48. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






49. Horace Mann fought for...






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