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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






3. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






4. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






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






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






9. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






11. Horace Mann fought for...






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






13. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






16. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






17. Dorothea Dix reformed...






18. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






19. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






21. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






22. Walt Whitman was known as...






23. Renaissance means?






24. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






25. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






27. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






30. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






31. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






32. Who was first to discover the new world?






33. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






35. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






37. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






38. Dred Scott was...






39. Herman Melville was known as...






40. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






41. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






42. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






43. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






44. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






47. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






50. Who invented the cotton gin?