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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. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






2. Who was first to discover the new world?






3. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






6. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






9. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






10. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






13. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






14. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






15. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






16. Renaissance means?






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






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






19. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






21. Dorothea Dix reformed...






22. Currier and Ives were known as...






23. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






24. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






25. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






26. Who wrote 'Walden'?






27. The temperance movement regulated what?






28. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






30. Walt Whitman was known as...






31. Horace Mann fought for...






32. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






33. Columbus sailed for what country?






34. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






37. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






38. Dred Scott was...






39. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






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






42. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






43. Herman Melville was known as...






44. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






45. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






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






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






50. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?