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






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






3. Herman Melville was known as...






4. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






5. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






6. Who invented the cotton gin?






7. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






8. Who was first to discover the new world?






9. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






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






13. Columbus sailed for what country?






14. Dorothea Dix reformed...






15. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






17. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






18. Currier and Ives were known as...






19. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






20. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






21. Dred Scott was...






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






23. The temperance movement regulated what?






24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






25. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






28. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






29. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






31. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






34. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






36. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






38. Horace Mann fought for...






39. Who wrote 'Walden'?






40. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






41. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






43. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






44. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






46. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






47. Walt Whitman was known as...






48. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






49. Renaissance means?






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