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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. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






2. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






5. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






7. Herman Melville was known as...






8. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






10. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






11. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






13. Who invented the cotton gin?






14. Walt Whitman was known as...






15. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






16. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






17. Who wrote 'Walden'?






18. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






19. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






20. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






21. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






22. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






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






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






27. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






29. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






30. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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31. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






34. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






36. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






38. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






40. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






42. Renaissance means?






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






44. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






45. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






46. Horace Mann fought for...






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






48. Dred Scott was...






49. Dorothea Dix reformed...






50. The temperance movement regulated what?