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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Which Amendment protects freedom of religion - speech - press - etc.?






2. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






3. Who wrote 'Walden'?






4. Renaissance means?






5. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






6. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






7. Herman Melville was known as...






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






9. Who invented the cotton gin?






10. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






11. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






12. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






14. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






16. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






18. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






20. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






22. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






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






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






27. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






28. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






29. Dorothea Dix reformed...






30. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






31. Columbus sailed for what country?






32. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






33. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






34. Dred Scott was...






35. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






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






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






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






41. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






42. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






43. Who was first to discover the new world?






44. Currier and Ives were known as...






45. Horace Mann fought for...






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






47. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






49. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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







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