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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






2. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






4. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






5. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






7. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






8. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






10. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






11. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






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






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






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






17. Horace Mann fought for...






18. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






19. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






21. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






22. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






24. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






25. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






27. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






28. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






29. Renaissance means?






30. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






31. Columbus sailed for what country?






32. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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33. Who was first to discover the new world?






34. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






35. The temperance movement regulated what?






36. Dred Scott was...






37. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






39. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






41. Who wrote 'Walden'?






42. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






44. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






46. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






47. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






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







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