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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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






2. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






3. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






5. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






6. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






8. Renaissance means?






9. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






11. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






13. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






14. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






16. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






17. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






18. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






21. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






22. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






23. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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24. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






27. The temperance movement regulated what?






28. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






29. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






31. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






32. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






33. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






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






37. Herman Melville was known as...






38. Who wrote 'Walden'?






39. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






40. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






43. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






46. Dorothea Dix reformed...






47. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






48. Horace Mann fought for...






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






50. Dred Scott was...