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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Renaissance means?






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






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






4. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






5. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






6. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






7. The temperance movement regulated what?






8. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






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






12. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






13. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






14. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






16. Dorothea Dix reformed...






17. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






19. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






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






23. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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24. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






25. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






26. Who wrote 'Walden'?






27. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






28. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






29. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






30. Dred Scott was...






31. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






32. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






34. Columbus sailed for what country?






35. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






38. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






39. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






41. Walt Whitman was known as...






42. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






43. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






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






47. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






48. Herman Melville was known as...






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






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?