Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Dorothea Dix reformed...






2. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






3. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






4. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






5. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


6. Walt Whitman was known as...






7. Currier and Ives were known as...






8. Herman Melville was known as...






9. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






11. Who wrote 'Walden'?






12. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






13. Dred Scott was...






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






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






16. Who was first to discover the new world?






17. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






18. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






20. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






22. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






23. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






24. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






26. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






29. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






30. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






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






34. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






35. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






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






39. Renaissance means?






40. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






41. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






42. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






43. Who invented the cotton gin?






44. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






47. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






50. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?







Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?


Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests



Major Subjects

Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests