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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






2. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






4. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






6. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






8. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






10. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






12. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






15. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






16. Dred Scott was...






17. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






18. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






19. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






21. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






23. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






25. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






26. Currier and Ives were known as...






27. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






28. Renaissance means?






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






30. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






31. Columbus sailed for what country?






32. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






33. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






36. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






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






40. Horace Mann fought for...






41. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






42. Who was first to discover the new world?






43. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






44. Dorothea Dix reformed...






45. Who wrote 'Walden'?






46. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






47. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






50. The temperance movement regulated what?






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