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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. Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?






2. Horace Mann fought for...






3. Who was first to discover the new world?






4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






5. Dorothea Dix reformed...






6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






8. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






11. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






12. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






14. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






15. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






17. Herman Melville was known as...






18. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






20. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






21. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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22. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






23. Renaissance means?






24. Who wrote 'Walden'?






25. Columbus sailed for what country?






26. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






27. Who invented the cotton gin?






28. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






29. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






32. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






34. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






35. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






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






39. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






41. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






43. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






44. Dred Scott was...






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






46. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






47. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






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