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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. Walt Whitman was known as...






2. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






4. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






6. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






7. Dred Scott was...






8. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






11. Herman Melville was known as...






12. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






16. Dorothea Dix reformed...






17. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






18. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






20. The temperance movement regulated what?






21. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






23. Who was first to discover the new world?






24. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






25. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






26. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






27. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






28. Renaissance means?






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






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






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






32. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






33. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






35. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






36. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






37. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






38. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






40. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






41. Columbus sailed for what country?






42. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






45. Who wrote 'Walden'?






46. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


47. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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