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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
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. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






2. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






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






6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






7. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






8. Herman Melville was known as...






9. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






11. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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12. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






13. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






14. Columbus sailed for what country?






15. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






16. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






19. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






20. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






21. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






22. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






24. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






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






28. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






30. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






31. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






33. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






34. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






35. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






36. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






38. Who invented the cotton gin?






39. The temperance movement regulated what?






40. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






43. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






44. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






45. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






46. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






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






50. Renaissance means?







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