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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 David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






4. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






5. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






8. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






9. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






10. Columbus sailed for what country?






11. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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12. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






14. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






16. Dred Scott was...






17. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






18. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






20. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






22. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






24. Who wrote 'Walden'?






25. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






27. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






29. The temperance movement regulated what?






30. Who invented the cotton gin?






31. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






32. Renaissance means?






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






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






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






36. Horace Mann fought for...






37. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






38. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






39. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






41. Walt Whitman was known as...






42. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






43. Herman Melville was known as...






44. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






46. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






47. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






49. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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