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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






3. Dred Scott was...






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






5. The temperance movement regulated what?






6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






7. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






8. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


9. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






10. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






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






14. Who invented the cotton gin?






15. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






17. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






18. Currier and Ives were known as...






19. Herman Melville was known as...






20. Renaissance means?






21. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






23. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






24. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






26. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






27. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






28. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






29. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






30. Columbus sailed for what country?






31. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






32. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






33. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






35. Horace Mann fought for...






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






37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






39. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






41. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






44. Who was first to discover the new world?






45. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






47. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






48. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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