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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The men who attended the Constitutional Convention to create a government were known as:






2. Who invented the cotton gin?






3. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






5. Walt Whitman was known as...






6. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






7. Columbus sailed for what country?






8. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






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






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






13. Currier and Ives were known as...






14. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






17. The temperance movement regulated what?






18. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






19. Renaissance means?






20. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






22. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






24. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






25. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






26. Herman Melville was known as...






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






28. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






29. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






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






33. Who wrote 'Walden'?






34. Dred Scott was...






35. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






36. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






38. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






39. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






41. Who was first to discover the new world?






42. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






43. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






44. Horace Mann fought for...






45. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






48. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






49. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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50. What were the names of Columbus' ships?