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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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1. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






3. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






4. Who was first to discover the new world?






5. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






7. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






8. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






10. Dred Scott was...






11. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






13. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






15. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






16. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






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






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






21. Who invented the cotton gin?






22. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






24. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






26. Herman Melville was known as...






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






28. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






31. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






33. Horace Mann fought for...






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






35. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






36. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






38. Dorothea Dix reformed...






39. Renaissance means?






40. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






42. Walt Whitman was known as...






43. Who wrote 'Walden'?






44. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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45. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






47. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






48. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






49. The temperance movement regulated what?






50. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...