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CLEP U.S. History

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






2. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






4. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






5. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






6. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






7. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






8. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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






14. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






15. Dorothea Dix reformed...






16. Horace Mann fought for...






17. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






19. Renaissance means?






20. Dred Scott was...






21. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






22. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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 Emancipation Proclamation did what?


26. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






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






31. Who was first to discover the new world?






32. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






33. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






35. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






37. Herman Melville was known as...






38. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






39. The temperance movement regulated what?






40. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






42. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






45. Who invented the cotton gin?






46. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






47. Columbus sailed for what country?






48. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






49. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






50. Walt Whitman was known as...