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






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






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






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






5. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






7. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






8. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






9. Renaissance means?






10. Who wrote 'Walden'?






11. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






12. Herman Melville was known as...






13. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






14. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






16. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






17. Dorothea Dix reformed...






18. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






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






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






23. Currier and Ives were known as...






24. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






25. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






27. Horace Mann fought for...






28. Dred Scott was...






29. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






31. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






32. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






34. Walt Whitman was known as...






35. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






36. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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37. Who was first to discover the new world?






38. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






39. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






40. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






42. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






45. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






46. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






47. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






48. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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