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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. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






3. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


4. Walt Whitman was known as...






5. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






6. Herman Melville was known as...






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






8. Who invented the cotton gin?






9. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






11. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






12. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






14. Dred Scott was...






15. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






16. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






17. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






20. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






21. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






22. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






24. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






26. Renaissance means?






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






28. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






31. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






34. Columbus sailed for what country?






35. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






36. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






37. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






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






41. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






43. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






44. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






45. Dorothea Dix reformed...






46. Currier and Ives were known as...






47. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






50. Who wrote 'Walden'?