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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






3. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






5. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






6. The temperance movement regulated what?






7. Horace Mann fought for...






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






9. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






10. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






11. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






12. Herman Melville was known as...






13. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






14. Dorothea Dix reformed...






15. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






17. Who was first to discover the new world?






18. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






22. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






24. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






26. Columbus sailed for what country?






27. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






28. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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29. Dred Scott was...






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






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






32. Who wrote 'Walden'?






33. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






35. Renaissance means?






36. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






37. Who invented the cotton gin?






38. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






39. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






40. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






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






44. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






47. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






48. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






49. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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







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