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






2. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






4. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






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






8. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






10. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






11. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






14. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






15. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






18. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






19. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






20. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






22. Columbus sailed for what country?






23. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






24. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






25. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






27. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






29. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






30. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






31. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






32. Horace Mann fought for...






33. Herman Melville was known as...






34. Renaissance means?






35. Dred Scott was...






36. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






37. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






38. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






39. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






42. Who invented the cotton gin?






43. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






46. Dorothea Dix reformed...






47. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






50. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...







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