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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. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






4. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






6. Currier and Ives were known as...






7. Renaissance means?






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






9. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






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






13. Who invented the cotton gin?






14. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






16. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






17. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






18. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






21. Dorothea Dix reformed...






22. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






23. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






25. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






26. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






27. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






28. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






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






32. Walt Whitman was known as...






33. Who wrote 'Walden'?






34. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






37. Dred Scott was...






38. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






39. Horace Mann fought for...






40. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






41. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






43. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






44. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






45. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






46. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






47. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


48. Columbus sailed for what country?






49. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






50. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?