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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






2. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






3. Walt Whitman was known as...






4. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






5. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






7. Who wrote 'Walden'?






8. Horace Mann fought for...






9. Dred Scott was...






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






11. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


12. Who was first to discover the new world?






13. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






16. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






19. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






21. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






22. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






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






26. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






28. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






31. Renaissance means?






32. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






34. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






35. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






38. Herman Melville was known as...






39. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






40. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






42. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






43. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






44. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






45. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






47. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






48. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






49. Columbus sailed for what country?






50. Currier and Ives were known as...