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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. Dred Scott was...






2. Renaissance means?






3. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






4. Who invented the cotton gin?






5. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






7. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






9. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






11. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






12. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






13. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






14. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






17. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






19. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






20. Who wrote 'Walden'?






21. The temperance movement regulated what?






22. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






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






26. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


27. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






28. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






29. Horace Mann fought for...






30. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






32. Columbus sailed for what country?






33. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






35. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






37. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






40. Walt Whitman was known as...






41. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






43. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






44. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






46. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






47. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






48. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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