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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 'Leaves of Grass'?






2. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






4. Who invented the cotton gin?






5. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






7. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






8. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






11. Horace Mann fought for...






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






13. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






14. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






16. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






17. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






21. Dred Scott was...






22. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






23. Herman Melville was known as...






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






25. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






28. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






29. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






30. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






32. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






33. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






34. Columbus sailed for what country?






35. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






36. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






37. Renaissance means?






38. Who was first to discover the new world?






39. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






40. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






41. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






43. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






45. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






46. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






48. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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