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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which Amendment is about the right to bear arms?






2. Who wrote 'Walden'?






3. The temperance movement regulated what?






4. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






6. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






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






10. Who was first to discover the new world?






11. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






13. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






14. Herman Melville was known as...






15. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






16. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






19. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






20. Dred Scott was...






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






22. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






23. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






25. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






26. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






27. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






30. Horace Mann fought for...






31. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






32. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






33. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






34. Walt Whitman was known as...






35. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






36. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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37. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






38. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






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






42. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






43. Dorothea Dix reformed...






44. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






46. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






47. Renaissance means?






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






49. Columbus sailed for what country?






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