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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The men who attended the Constitutional Convention to create a government were known as:






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






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






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






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






6. Dred Scott was...






7. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






9. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






10. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






11. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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12. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






13. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






14. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






15. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






16. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






18. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






20. Walt Whitman was known as...






21. Horace Mann fought for...






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






23. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






25. Who invented the cotton gin?






26. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






29. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






31. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






32. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






33. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






34. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






35. The temperance movement regulated what?






36. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






37. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






38. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






39. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






40. Columbus sailed for what country?






41. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






42. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






43. Renaissance means?






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






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






46. Herman Melville was known as...






47. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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







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