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






2. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






4. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






5. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






7. Herman Melville was known as...






8. Dred Scott was...






9. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






11. Dorothea Dix reformed...






12. Renaissance means?






13. Horace Mann fought for...






14. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






17. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






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






21. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






22. Who invented the cotton gin?






23. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






24. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






25. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






26. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






28. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






29. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






30. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






31. Currier and Ives were known as...






32. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






35. Columbus sailed for what country?






36. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






38. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






40. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






41. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






42. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






43. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






45. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






48. Walt Whitman was known as...






49. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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







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