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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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1. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






2. Renaissance means?






3. Columbus sailed for what country?






4. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






6. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






9. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






11. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






12. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






13. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






15. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






16. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






18. Horace Mann fought for...






19. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






20. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






21. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






24. Who was first to discover the new world?






25. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






26. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






27. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






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






31. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






32. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






33. Currier and Ives were known as...






34. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






35. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






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






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






40. The temperance movement regulated what?






41. Dorothea Dix reformed...






42. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






45. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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46. Dred Scott was...






47. Walt Whitman was known as...






48. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






49. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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