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






2. Walt Whitman was known as...






3. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






6. Who wrote 'Walden'?






7. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






8. Columbus sailed for what country?






9. Dred Scott was...






10. Who invented the cotton gin?






11. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






12. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






13. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






16. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






18. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






20. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






21. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






22. The temperance movement regulated what?






23. Renaissance means?






24. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






25. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






28. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






30. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






31. Currier and Ives were known as...






32. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






33. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






36. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






38. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






39. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






40. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






42. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






43. Dorothea Dix reformed...






44. Horace Mann fought for...






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






46. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






47. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






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