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CLEP U.S. History

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






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






3. Walt Whitman was known as...






4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






5. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






6. The temperance movement regulated what?






7. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






8. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






10. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






11. Horace Mann fought for...






12. Dred Scott was...






13. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






14. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






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






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






20. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






22. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






24. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






25. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






27. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






30. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






31. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






33. Who wrote 'Walden'?






34. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






35. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






36. Renaissance means?






37. Who was first to discover the new world?






38. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






39. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






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






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






44. Dorothea Dix reformed...






45. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






46. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






47. Herman Melville was known as...






48. Columbus sailed for what country?






49. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






50. Who invented the cotton gin?