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






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






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






4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






5. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






7. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






8. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






10. Horace Mann fought for...






11. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






13. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






14. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






15. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






16. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






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






20. Herman Melville was known as...






21. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






22. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






23. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






27. Who was first to discover the new world?






28. Columbus sailed for what country?






29. Currier and Ives were known as...






30. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






32. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






33. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






36. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






38. Renaissance means?






39. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






40. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






41. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






42. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






45. Who wrote 'Walden'?






46. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






47. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






48. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


49. Dred Scott was...






50. Who invented the cotton gin?