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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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1. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






2. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






3. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






4. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






5. Walt Whitman was known as...






6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






7. Who invented the cotton gin?






8. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






11. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






13. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






15. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






16. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






19. Renaissance means?






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






21. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






25. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






27. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






28. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






29. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






31. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






33. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






34. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






36. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






37. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






38. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






40. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






41. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






43. The temperance movement regulated what?






44. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






45. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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46. Dred Scott was...






47. Horace Mann fought for...






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






49. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






50. Herman Melville was known as...