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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. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






3. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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4. Who invented the cotton gin?






5. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






6. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






9. Dred Scott was...






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






11. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






12. Renaissance means?






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






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






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






16. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






17. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






18. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






19. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






22. The temperance movement regulated what?






23. Walt Whitman was known as...






24. Dorothea Dix reformed...






25. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






28. Herman Melville was known as...






29. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






31. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






33. Who was first to discover the new world?






34. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






35. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






37. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






38. Columbus sailed for what country?






39. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






41. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






42. Currier and Ives were known as...






43. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






45. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






48. Horace Mann fought for...






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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