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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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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. The temperance movement regulated what?






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






3. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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4. Who invented the cotton gin?






5. Dred Scott was...






6. Renaissance means?






7. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






9. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






10. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






11. Walt Whitman was known as...






12. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






14. Dorothea Dix reformed...






15. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






16. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






19. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






20. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






22. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






23. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






24. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






25. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






28. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






30. Who was first to discover the new world?






31. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






32. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






34. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






35. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






36. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






37. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






40. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Currier and Ives were known as...






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






50. Herman Melville was known as...