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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. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






2. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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3. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






6. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






8. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






9. Dorothea Dix reformed...






10. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






11. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






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






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






16. Herman Melville was known as...






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






18. Horace Mann fought for...






19. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






20. Renaissance means?






21. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






24. Columbus sailed for what country?






25. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






26. Who invented the cotton gin?






27. Dred Scott was...






28. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






31. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






33. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






35. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






36. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






38. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






39. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






42. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






43. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






44. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






47. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






48. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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