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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. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






2. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






4. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






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






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






9. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






11. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






13. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






14. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






15. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






16. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






17. Columbus sailed for what country?






18. Who wrote 'Walden'?






19. Currier and Ives were known as...






20. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






22. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






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






26. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






27. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






29. The temperance movement regulated what?






30. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






32. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






34. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






35. Dred Scott was...






36. Walt Whitman was known as...






37. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






38. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






39. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






40. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






41. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






43. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






45. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






47. Herman Melville was known as...






48. Renaissance means?






49. Horace Mann fought for...






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