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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 was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?






2. Renaissance means?






3. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






5. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






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






9. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


10. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






12. Herman Melville was known as...






13. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






14. Dorothea Dix reformed...






15. Walt Whitman was known as...






16. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






17. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






18. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






19. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






20. Dred Scott was...






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






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






23. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






24. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






25. Columbus sailed for what country?






26. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






27. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






28. Currier and Ives were known as...






29. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






30. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






32. Who was first to discover the new world?






33. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






36. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






37. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






40. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






41. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






43. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






45. Horace Mann fought for...






46. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






47. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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