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CLEP U.S. History

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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. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






2. Dred Scott was...






3. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






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






8. Currier and Ives were known as...






9. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






10. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






11. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






14. Horace Mann fought for...






15. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






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






19. Walt Whitman was known as...






20. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






22. Who wrote 'Walden'?






23. Herman Melville was known as...






24. Columbus sailed for what country?






25. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






28. Who was first to discover the new world?






29. Renaissance means?






30. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






32. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






33. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






34. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






36. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






37. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






38. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






39. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






42. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






43. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






44. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






45. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






47. Dorothea Dix reformed...






48. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






50. Which Amendment guarantees due process?