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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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






2. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






4. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






5. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






8. Renaissance means?






9. Walt Whitman was known as...






10. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






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






14. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






16. Dred Scott was...






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






18. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






20. Dorothea Dix reformed...






21. Currier and Ives were known as...






22. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






23. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






24. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






26. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






27. Who invented the cotton gin?






28. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






29. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






30. Herman Melville was known as...






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






32. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






34. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






35. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






37. Horace Mann fought for...






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






39. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






40. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






42. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






45. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






46. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


47. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






48. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






49. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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