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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






2. Columbus sailed for what country?






3. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






6. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






8. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






10. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






11. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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12. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






13. Dorothea Dix reformed...






14. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






16. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






18. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






19. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






21. Herman Melville was known as...






22. The temperance movement regulated what?






23. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






24. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






27. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






28. Who was first to discover the new world?






29. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






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






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






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






35. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






39. Walt Whitman was known as...






40. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






42. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






43. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






44. Dred Scott was...






45. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






47. Currier and Ives were known as...






48. Horace Mann fought for...






49. Renaissance means?






50. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?