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






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






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






4. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






6. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






7. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






9. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






10. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






11. The temperance movement regulated what?






12. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






13. Who invented the cotton gin?






14. Renaissance means?






15. Currier and Ives were known as...






16. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






17. Columbus sailed for what country?






18. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






22. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






25. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






27. Who wrote 'Walden'?






28. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






29. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






30. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






33. Dred Scott was...






34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






35. Walt Whitman was known as...






36. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






39. Who was first to discover the new world?






40. Horace Mann fought for...






41. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






42. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






43. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






46. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






48. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






49. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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