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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. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






2. Dred Scott was...






3. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






4. Renaissance means?






5. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






6. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






7. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






9. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






10. Herman Melville was known as...






11. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






12. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






13. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






15. Who invented the cotton gin?






16. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






20. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






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






24. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






25. Dorothea Dix reformed...






26. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






27. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






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






31. Who was first to discover the new world?






32. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






33. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






34. Horace Mann fought for...






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






36. Walt Whitman was known as...






37. Columbus sailed for what country?






38. The temperance movement regulated what?






39. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






42. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






43. Who wrote 'Walden'?






44. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






46. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






49. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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







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