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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. Which Amendment is about the right to bear arms?






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






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






4. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






5. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






6. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






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






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






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






12. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






13. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






15. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






16. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






19. Dred Scott was...






20. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






21. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






23. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






25. The temperance movement regulated what?






26. Horace Mann fought for...






27. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






28. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






29. Who wrote 'Walden'?






30. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






32. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






33. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






34. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






35. Columbus sailed for what country?






36. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






38. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






41. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






43. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






45. Who invented the cotton gin?






46. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






47. Currier and Ives were known as...






48. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






49. Walt Whitman was known as...






50. Renaissance means?