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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The men who attended the Constitutional Convention to create a government were known as:






2. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






3. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






6. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






9. Horace Mann fought for...






10. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






12. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






13. Who was first to discover the new world?






14. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






15. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






16. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






19. Walt Whitman was known as...






20. The temperance movement regulated what?






21. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






24. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






25. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






27. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






28. Columbus sailed for what country?






29. Dorothea Dix reformed...






30. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






32. Dred Scott was...






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






34. Renaissance means?






35. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






36. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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37. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






38. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






39. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






41. Herman Melville was known as...






42. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






44. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






45. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






48. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






49. Who invented the cotton gin?






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