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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. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






3. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






4. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






7. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






12. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






13. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






15. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






16. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






18. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






20. Herman Melville was known as...






21. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






23. Renaissance means?






24. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






25. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






26. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






27. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






28. Who wrote 'Walden'?






29. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






32. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






33. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






34. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






35. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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36. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






38. Walt Whitman was known as...






39. Columbus sailed for what country?






40. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






42. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






43. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






44. Who was first to discover the new world?






45. Dred Scott was...






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






47. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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