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CLEP U.S. History

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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. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






3. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






5. Renaissance means?






6. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






7. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






8. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






9. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






10. Dred Scott was...






11. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






12. Horace Mann fought for...






13. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






14. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






16. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






17. Walt Whitman was known as...






18. Herman Melville was known as...






19. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






20. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






22. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






23. The temperance movement regulated what?






24. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






25. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






26. Currier and Ives were known as...






27. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






28. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






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






32. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






34. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






36. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






37. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






38. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






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






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






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






44. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






47. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






50. Which Amendment guarantees due process?