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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. She called for social and political equality for women.






2. Dorothea Dix reformed...






3. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






4. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






5. Dred Scott was...






6. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






8. Currier and Ives were known as...






9. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






10. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






11. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






12. Renaissance means?






13. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






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






17. Walt Whitman was known as...






18. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






19. Horace Mann fought for...






20. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






24. Who was first to discover the new world?






25. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






26. Who invented the cotton gin?






27. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






30. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






31. Columbus sailed for what country?






32. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






34. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






35. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






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






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






40. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






42. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






44. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






46. Herman Melville was known as...






47. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






49. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






50. Who wrote 'Walden'?