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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. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






2. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






4. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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






8. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






10. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


11. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






13. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






15. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






16. Renaissance means?






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






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






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






20. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






21. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






22. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






23. Walt Whitman was known as...






24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






25. Currier and Ives were known as...






26. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






28. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






30. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






33. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






35. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






36. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






38. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






39. Who was first to discover the new world?






40. Dred Scott was...






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






42. Herman Melville was known as...






43. The temperance movement regulated what?






44. Horace Mann fought for...






45. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






46. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






47. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






48. Columbus sailed for what country?






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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