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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. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






2. The temperance movement regulated what?






3. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






5. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






7. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






8. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






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






12. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






13. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






15. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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16. Renaissance means?






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






18. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






19. Dred Scott was...






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






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






22. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






23. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






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






27. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






30. Horace Mann fought for...






31. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






32. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






34. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






35. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






36. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






38. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






39. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






40. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






41. Walt Whitman was known as...






42. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






43. Columbus sailed for what country?






44. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






46. Herman Melville was known as...






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






48. Who invented the cotton gin?






49. Dorothea Dix reformed...






50. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...