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CLEP U.S. History

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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. Renaissance means?






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






3. Columbus sailed for what country?






4. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






6. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






7. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






8. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






10. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






11. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






12. Who wrote 'Walden'?






13. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






15. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






18. Herman Melville was known as...






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






20. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






22. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






23. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






25. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






26. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






27. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






28. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






29. Who was first to discover the new world?






30. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






32. Dred Scott was...






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






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






35. Currier and Ives were known as...






36. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






39. Dorothea Dix reformed...






40. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






42. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






44. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






46. Horace Mann fought for...






47. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






50. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?