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CLEP U.S. History

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






2. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






3. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






6. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






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






10. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






11. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






13. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






14. Who wrote 'Walden'?






15. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






16. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






17. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






18. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






21. Walt Whitman was known as...






22. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






24. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






26. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






28. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






31. Who was first to discover the new world?






32. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






33. Dorothea Dix reformed...






34. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






36. Horace Mann fought for...






37. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






39. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






40. Dred Scott was...






41. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






43. Renaissance means?






44. Who invented the cotton gin?






45. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






46. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






48. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






49. The temperance movement regulated what?






50. Herman Melville was known as...