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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
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. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






4. Horace Mann fought for...






5. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






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






9. Who wrote 'Walden'?






10. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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11. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






12. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






14. Who was first to discover the new world?






15. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






16. Currier and Ives were known as...






17. Dred Scott was...






18. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






20. Renaissance means?






21. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






23. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






24. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






25. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






28. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






29. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






30. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






33. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






35. Herman Melville was known as...






36. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






38. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






39. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






41. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






42. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






43. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






44. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






45. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






46. Who invented the cotton gin?






47. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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