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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. Which Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial?






2. Walt Whitman was known as...






3. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






5. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






8. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






9. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






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






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






13. Who invented the cotton gin?






14. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






15. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






16. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






18. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






19. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






20. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






21. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






22. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






23. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






26. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






27. Horace Mann fought for...






28. Dred Scott was...






29. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






31. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






33. Currier and Ives were known as...






34. Renaissance means?






35. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






38. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






39. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






40. Columbus sailed for what country?






41. The temperance movement regulated what?






42. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






44. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






46. Herman Melville was known as...






47. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






49. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






50. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?