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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. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






3. Horace Mann fought for...






4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






5. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






6. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






7. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






8. The temperance movement regulated what?






9. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






12. Herman Melville was known as...






13. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






16. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






20. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






22. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






23. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






24. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






25. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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26. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






27. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






29. Dred Scott was...






30. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






32. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






33. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






35. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






36. Who invented the cotton gin?






37. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






38. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






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






42. Who wrote 'Walden'?






43. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






46. Renaissance means?






47. Currier and Ives were known as...






48. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






50. Dorothea Dix reformed...