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CLEP U.S. History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






2. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






4. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






6. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






8. The temperance movement regulated what?






9. Dred Scott was...






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






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






12. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






13. Dorothea Dix reformed...






14. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






17. Who invented the cotton gin?






18. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






19. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






21. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






22. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






23. Currier and Ives were known as...






24. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






25. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






26. Renaissance means?






27. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






28. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






30. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






33. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






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






37. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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38. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






39. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






41. Herman Melville was known as...






42. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






44. Who wrote 'Walden'?






45. Horace Mann fought for...






46. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






49. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






50. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...