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






2. Who wrote 'Walden'?






3. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






6. Herman Melville was known as...






7. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






8. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






9. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






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






13. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






16. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






17. Dred Scott was...






18. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






19. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






20. Dorothea Dix reformed...






21. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






22. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






25. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






27. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






28. Renaissance means?






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






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






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






32. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






33. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






34. Horace Mann fought for...






35. Columbus sailed for what country?






36. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






37. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






38. Who was first to discover the new world?






39. Walt Whitman was known as...






40. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






42. Currier and Ives were known as...






43. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






45. Who invented the cotton gin?






46. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






47. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






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