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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. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






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






5. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






6. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






7. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






8. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






10. Renaissance means?






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






12. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






14. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






15. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






16. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






17. Columbus sailed for what country?






18. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






20. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






23. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






24. Walt Whitman was known as...






25. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






27. Horace Mann fought for...






28. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


29. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






31. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






32. Herman Melville was known as...






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






34. Who invented the cotton gin?






35. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






36. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






37. Dred Scott was...






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






39. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






41. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






43. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






45. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






46. The temperance movement regulated what?






47. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






50. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?