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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
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. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






3. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






5. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






6. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






7. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






8. Herman Melville was known as...






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






10. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






12. Columbus sailed for what country?






13. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






15. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






17. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






19. Horace Mann fought for...






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






21. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






22. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






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






26. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






28. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






29. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






30. Dred Scott was...






31. Dorothea Dix reformed...






32. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






33. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






34. Renaissance means?






35. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






37. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






38. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






39. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






40. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






41. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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






45. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






47. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






48. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


49. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






50. Henry David Thoreau was known as...