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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






2. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






3. Dred Scott was...






4. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






7. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






9. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






10. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






11. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






12. Renaissance means?






13. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






15. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






16. Who wrote 'Walden'?






17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






19. Columbus sailed for what country?






20. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






21. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






23. Dorothea Dix reformed...






24. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






25. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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






29. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






31. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






34. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






37. Herman Melville was known as...






38. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






41. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






42. Who invented the cotton gin?






43. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






44. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






45. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






46. The temperance movement regulated what?






47. Currier and Ives were known as...






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






50. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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