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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. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






2. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






3. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






5. Horace Mann fought for...






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






7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






8. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






9. Renaissance means?






10. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






12. Who invented the cotton gin?






13. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






14. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






16. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






19. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






21. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






22. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






25. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






26. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






27. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






29. Dorothea Dix reformed...






30. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






33. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






36. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






37. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






38. Walt Whitman was known as...






39. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






41. Who was first to discover the new world?






42. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






43. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






44. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






46. Dred Scott was...






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






48. Who wrote 'Walden'?






49. Columbus sailed for what country?






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