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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. Horace Mann fought for...






3. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






5. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






8. Columbus sailed for what country?






9. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






11. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






12. Who was first to discover the new world?






13. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






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






17. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






18. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






20. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






22. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






23. Dred Scott was...






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






25. Renaissance means?






26. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






28. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






29. The temperance movement regulated what?






30. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






32. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






33. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






36. Walt Whitman was known as...






37. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






39. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






40. Dorothea Dix reformed...






41. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






42. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






44. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






45. Who wrote 'Walden'?






46. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






47. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






50. Herman Melville was known as...