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






2. Dorothea Dix reformed...






3. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






6. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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7. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






10. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






12. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






13. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






14. Herman Melville was known as...






15. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






17. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






18. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






19. Renaissance means?






20. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






21. Currier and Ives were known as...






22. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






24. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






25. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






27. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






28. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






29. Dred Scott was...






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






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






32. Who was first to discover the new world?






33. Walt Whitman was known as...






34. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






35. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






37. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






38. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






40. The temperance movement regulated what?






41. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






43. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






46. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






47. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






48. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






49. Who invented the cotton gin?






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