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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. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






2. Columbus sailed for what country?






3. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






4. Walt Whitman was known as...






5. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






8. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






9. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






11. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






12. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






16. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






20. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






21. Dred Scott was...






22. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






25. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






27. Who wrote 'Walden'?






28. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






29. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






30. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






31. Horace Mann fought for...






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






33. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






34. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






36. Renaissance means?






37. Dorothea Dix reformed...






38. The temperance movement regulated what?






39. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






40. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






41. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






42. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






44. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






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






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






49. Herman Melville was known as...






50. Who invented the cotton gin?







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