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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
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. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






2. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






4. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






6. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






8. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






9. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






10. Horace Mann fought for...






11. Who wrote 'Walden'?






12. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






15. Dred Scott was...






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






17. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






18. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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19. Renaissance means?






20. Who invented the cotton gin?






21. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






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






25. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






27. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






29. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






31. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






32. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






33. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






34. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






36. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






37. Who was first to discover the new world?






38. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






40. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






42. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






43. Dorothea Dix reformed...






44. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






47. Herman Melville was known as...






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






49. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






50. Lincoln was assaassinated by?