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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. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






2. Herman Melville was known as...






3. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






4. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






5. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






7. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






8. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






9. Dorothea Dix reformed...






10. Who wrote 'Walden'?






11. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






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






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






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






16. Currier and Ives were known as...






17. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






19. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






20. Dred Scott was...






21. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






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






25. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






27. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






28. Horace Mann fought for...






29. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






30. Renaissance means?






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






32. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






33. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






35. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






36. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






37. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






40. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






41. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






42. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






43. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






45. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






46. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






49. Columbus sailed for what country?






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