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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






3. Currier and Ives were known as...






4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






5. Herman Melville was known as...






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






7. Dorothea Dix reformed...






8. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






9. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






10. Horace Mann fought for...






11. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






14. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






15. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






17. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Who wrote 'Walden'?






25. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






26. Columbus sailed for what country?






27. Renaissance means?






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






29. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






30. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






33. Who invented the cotton gin?






34. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






35. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






36. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






38. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






39. Dred Scott was...






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






41. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






42. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






43. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






44. Who was first to discover the new world?






45. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






47. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






50. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?







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