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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who wrote 'Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania'?






2. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






3. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






4. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






6. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






7. Who was first to discover the new world?






8. The temperance movement regulated what?






9. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






11. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






15. Currier and Ives were known as...






16. Renaissance means?






17. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






18. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






20. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






21. Horace Mann fought for...






22. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






24. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






25. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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26. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






28. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






30. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






31. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






33. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






37. Dred Scott was...






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






39. Walt Whitman was known as...






40. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






41. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






44. Columbus sailed for what country?






45. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






46. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






48. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






49. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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