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






2. Columbus sailed for what country?






3. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






4. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






6. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






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






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






11. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






12. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






13. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






15. Who wrote 'Walden'?






16. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






17. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






18. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






20. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






22. Walt Whitman was known as...






23. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






24. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






25. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






28. Who was first to discover the new world?






29. Renaissance means?






30. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






31. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






33. Herman Melville was known as...






34. Currier and Ives were known as...






35. Dred Scott was...






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






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






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






39. Who invented the cotton gin?






40. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






41. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






42. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






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






46. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






48. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






49. Dorothea Dix reformed...






50. Horace Mann fought for...