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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 David Thoreau was known as...






2. Who was first to discover the new world?






3. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






5. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






6. Herman Melville was known as...






7. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






9. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






10. Walt Whitman was known as...






11. Dorothea Dix reformed...






12. Horace Mann fought for...






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






14. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






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






19. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






21. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






22. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






23. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






24. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






25. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






26. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






27. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






28. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






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






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






33. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






34. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






35. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






36. Who invented the cotton gin?






37. Columbus sailed for what country?






38. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






39. Dred Scott was...






40. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






41. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






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






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






46. Who wrote 'Walden'?






47. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






49. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






50. Renaissance means?