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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial?






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






3. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






4. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






5. Who wrote 'Walden'?






6. Dred Scott was...






7. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






8. Who invented the cotton gin?






9. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






10. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






12. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






13. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






14. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






15. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






17. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






18. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






20. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






21. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






22. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






24. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






25. Renaissance means?






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






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






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






29. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






30. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






32. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






34. Who was first to discover the new world?






35. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






37. Horace Mann fought for...






38. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






40. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






41. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






44. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






46. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






47. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






50. Columbus sailed for what country?