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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. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






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






5. Currier and Ives were known as...






6. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






7. Columbus sailed for what country?






8. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






10. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






11. Who wrote 'Walden'?






12. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






13. Renaissance means?






14. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






15. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






17. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






19. Herman Melville was known as...






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






21. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






22. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






23. Who was first to discover the new world?






24. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






26. The temperance movement regulated what?






27. Horace Mann fought for...






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






29. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






30. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






31. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






32. Dred Scott was...






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






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






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






36. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






38. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






39. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






42. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






43. Walt Whitman was known as...






44. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






45. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






47. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






48. Dorothea Dix reformed...






49. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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