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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. Who wrote 'Walden'?






2. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






3. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






5. Horace Mann fought for...






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






7. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






9. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






10. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






12. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






14. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






17. Who invented the cotton gin?






18. Renaissance means?






19. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






21. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






22. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






23. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






24. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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






28. Who was first to discover the new world?






29. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






31. Currier and Ives were known as...






32. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






34. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






35. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






37. Herman Melville was known as...






38. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






39. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






40. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






41. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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42. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






43. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






45. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






47. Walt Whitman was known as...






48. Dred Scott was...






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






50. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?