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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






2. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






5. Dred Scott was...






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






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






8. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






10. Currier and Ives were known as...






11. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






12. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






14. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






16. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






17. Renaissance means?






18. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






20. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






22. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






23. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






24. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






25. Who was first to discover the new world?






26. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






29. Columbus sailed for what country?






30. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






31. Who invented the cotton gin?






32. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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33. Herman Melville was known as...






34. Walt Whitman was known as...






35. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






38. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






41. Horace Mann fought for...






42. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






43. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






44. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






45. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






48. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






50. Henry David Thoreau was known as...