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CLEP U.S. History

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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. Which preacher did skits and dramatizations in his sermons?






2. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






3. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






6. Horace Mann fought for...






7. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






10. Herman Melville was known as...






11. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






12. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






14. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






15. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






16. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






17. Who wrote 'Walden'?






18. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






20. Dred Scott was...






21. Currier and Ives were known as...






22. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






24. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






26. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






28. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






29. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






31. The temperance movement regulated what?






32. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






36. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






37. Dorothea Dix reformed...






38. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






40. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






41. Renaissance means?






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






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






44. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






46. Who invented the cotton gin?






47. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






48. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






49. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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