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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Which Amendment protects freedom of religion - speech - press - etc.?






2. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






5. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






8. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






11. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






12. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






13. Who was first to discover the new world?






14. Dred Scott was...






15. Walt Whitman was known as...






16. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






17. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






19. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






21. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






22. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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23. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






25. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






26. The temperance movement regulated what?






27. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






28. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






30. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






31. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






33. Renaissance means?






34. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






36. Currier and Ives were known as...






37. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






38. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






41. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






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






45. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






46. Horace Mann fought for...






47. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






48. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






50. The Morill Tariff Act did what?