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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 Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






3. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






4. Who invented the cotton gin?






5. Renaissance means?






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






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






8. Columbus sailed for what country?






9. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






11. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






12. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






13. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






16. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






18. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






21. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






24. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






25. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






27. Who was first to discover the new world?






28. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


29. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






30. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






31. Dorothea Dix reformed...






32. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






33. The temperance movement regulated what?






34. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






35. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






36. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






40. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






41. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






43. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






44. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






45. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






47. Dred Scott was...






48. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






49. Horace Mann fought for...






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