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CLEP U.S. History

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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. Dred Scott was...






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






3. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






6. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






7. Dorothea Dix reformed...






8. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






9. Who was first to discover the new world?






10. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






13. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






15. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






17. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






19. Who invented the cotton gin?






20. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






21. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






24. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






25. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






28. The temperance movement regulated what?






29. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






30. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






32. Renaissance means?






33. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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34. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






35. Walt Whitman was known as...






36. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






37. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






38. Who wrote 'Walden'?






39. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






41. Currier and Ives were known as...






42. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






43. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






44. Columbus sailed for what country?






45. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






48. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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