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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. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






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






5. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






6. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






8. Walt Whitman was known as...






9. Horace Mann fought for...






10. Dred Scott was...






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






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






13. Columbus sailed for what country?






14. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






15. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






17. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






18. Who was first to discover the new world?






19. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






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






23. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






24. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






25. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






26. The temperance movement regulated what?






27. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






28. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






29. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






30. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






31. Herman Melville was known as...






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






33. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






34. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






35. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






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






40. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






42. Renaissance means?






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






44. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






46. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






47. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






48. Who wrote 'Walden'?






49. Currier and Ives were known as...






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?