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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. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






4. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






6. Dorothea Dix reformed...






7. Who was first to discover the new world?






8. Who invented the cotton gin?






9. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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10. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






12. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






13. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






14. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






15. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






18. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






20. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






23. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






25. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






27. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






29. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






30. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






31. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






32. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






33. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






34. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






35. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






36. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






40. Herman Melville was known as...






41. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






42. The temperance movement regulated what?






43. Horace Mann fought for...






44. Currier and Ives were known as...






45. Dred Scott was...






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






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






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






49. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






50. Who wrote 'Walden'?