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CLEP U.S. History

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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. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






2. Herman Melville was known as...






3. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






6. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






7. Dred Scott was...






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






9. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






10. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






11. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






13. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






16. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






18. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






21. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






24. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






26. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






27. Who was first to discover the new world?






28. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






30. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






31. Renaissance means?






32. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






34. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






35. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






37. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






38. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






39. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






40. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






42. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






43. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






44. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






45. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






46. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






47. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






50. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?