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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 is one of the greatest discoveries of the time in manufacturing?






2. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






3. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






6. Walt Whitman was known as...






7. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






8. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






10. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






12. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






14. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






16. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






17. Dred Scott was...






18. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






21. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






23. Herman Melville was known as...






24. Columbus sailed for what country?






25. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






26. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






27. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






28. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






31. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






32. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






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






36. The temperance movement regulated what?






37. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






39. Dorothea Dix reformed...






40. Who invented the cotton gin?






41. Currier and Ives were known as...






42. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






44. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






46. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






47. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






48. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






50. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?