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






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






3. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






4. Walt Whitman was known as...






5. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






7. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






8. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






10. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






12. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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13. Horace Mann fought for...






14. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






17. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






18. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






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






23. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






25. Renaissance means?






26. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






28. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






30. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






31. Dred Scott was...






32. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






35. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






37. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






38. Herman Melville was known as...






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






40. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






41. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






42. Dorothea Dix reformed...






43. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






44. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






45. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






46. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






47. Currier and Ives were known as...






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






49. Who was first to discover the new world?






50. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?







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