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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. Columbus sailed for what country?






2. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






3. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






5. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






6. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






8. The temperance movement regulated what?






9. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






10. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






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






14. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






16. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






18. Horace Mann fought for...






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






20. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






23. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






25. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






28. Renaissance means?






29. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






30. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






31. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






32. Who was first to discover the new world?






33. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






34. Herman Melville was known as...






35. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






37. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






39. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






41. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






42. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






43. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






45. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






46. Dred Scott was...






47. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






48. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






49. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






50. Louisa May Alcott was known as...