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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?






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






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






4. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






7. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






8. Herman Melville was known as...






9. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






12. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






13. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






14. Renaissance means?






15. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






17. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






19. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






21. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






22. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






23. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






26. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






27. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






28. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






29. Dred Scott was...






30. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






33. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






34. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






36. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






38. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






40. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






41. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






42. Horace Mann fought for...






43. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






44. The temperance movement regulated what?






45. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






47. Currier and Ives were known as...






48. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






49. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






50. Walt Whitman was known as...