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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. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






2. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






4. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






5. Herman Melville was known as...






6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






7. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






8. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






9. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






11. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






13. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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14. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






16. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






17. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






20. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






22. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






23. Renaissance means?






24. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






26. The temperance movement regulated what?






27. Who wrote 'Walden'?






28. Dred Scott was...






29. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






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






33. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






34. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






35. Who invented the cotton gin?






36. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






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






40. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






43. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






44. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






45. Horace Mann fought for...






46. Dorothea Dix reformed...






47. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






48. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






50. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?