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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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1. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






3. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






5. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






8. Herman Melville was known as...






9. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






11. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






12. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






14. Columbus sailed for what country?






15. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






17. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






20. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






21. Walt Whitman was known as...






22. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






23. Dred Scott was...






24. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






25. Horace Mann fought for...






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






28. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






30. Who was first to discover the new world?






31. Who wrote 'Walden'?






32. The temperance movement regulated what?






33. Renaissance means?






34. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






35. Who invented the cotton gin?






36. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






38. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






41. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






42. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






44. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






45. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






47. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






50. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?