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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. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






3. Horace Mann fought for...






4. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






6. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






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






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






11. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






12. Columbus sailed for what country?






13. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






16. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






18. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






21. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






23. Renaissance means?






24. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






25. The temperance movement regulated what?






26. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






27. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






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






31. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






32. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






33. Currier and Ives were known as...






34. Dred Scott was...






35. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






36. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






37. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






39. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






40. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






41. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






43. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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44. Herman Melville was known as...






45. Walt Whitman was known as...






46. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






47. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






49. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






50. Who was first to discover the new world?







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