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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Which Amendment is about the right to bear arms?






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






3. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






6. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






8. Dred Scott was...






9. Renaissance means?






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






11. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






12. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






14. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






16. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






17. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






19. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






20. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






23. Herman Melville was known as...






24. Who wrote 'Walden'?






25. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






26. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






28. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






30. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






31. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






34. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






36. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






38. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






39. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






40. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






41. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






43. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






45. Columbus sailed for what country?






46. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






47. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






48. Dorothea Dix reformed...






49. Who invented the cotton gin?






50. Horace Mann fought for...







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