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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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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. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






2. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






3. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






5. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






6. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






9. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






12. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






13. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






14. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






16. Renaissance means?






17. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






19. Dorothea Dix reformed...






20. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






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






24. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






25. Who was first to discover the new world?






26. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






27. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






28. Walt Whitman was known as...






29. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






30. Horace Mann fought for...






31. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






32. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






34. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






37. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






40. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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41. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






44. Dred Scott was...






45. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






47. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






48. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






50. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...