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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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2. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






3. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






4. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






6. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






7. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






8. The temperance movement regulated what?






9. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






10. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






11. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






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






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






16. Columbus sailed for what country?






17. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






20. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






21. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






22. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






23. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






24. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






26. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






27. Herman Melville was known as...






28. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






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






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






33. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






36. Dred Scott was...






37. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






38. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






39. Renaissance means?






40. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






41. Who invented the cotton gin?






42. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






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






46. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






48. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






49. Horace Mann fought for...






50. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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