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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. Horace Mann fought for...






2. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






4. Dred Scott was...






5. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






6. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






7. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






9. Herman Melville was known as...






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






11. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






12. Who was first to discover the new world?






13. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






15. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






17. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






18. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






19. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






21. Who invented the cotton gin?






22. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






23. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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24. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






26. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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






30. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






31. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






33. Renaissance means?






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






35. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






37. The temperance movement regulated what?






38. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






40. Walt Whitman was known as...






41. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






43. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






45. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






46. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






47. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






48. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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







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