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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. Dred Scott was...






2. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






4. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






5. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






6. Renaissance means?






7. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






9. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






12. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






14. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






15. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






16. Horace Mann fought for...






17. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






18. Columbus sailed for what country?






19. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






20. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






21. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






22. Dorothea Dix reformed...






23. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






26. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






28. Herman Melville was known as...






29. Who wrote 'Walden'?






30. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






31. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






32. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






33. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






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






37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






38. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






39. Currier and Ives were known as...






40. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






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






44. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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






48. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






49. The temperance movement regulated what?






50. Who was first to discover the new world?