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






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






3. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






4. The temperance movement regulated what?






5. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






7. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






9. Horace Mann fought for...






10. Currier and Ives were known as...






11. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






12. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






15. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






16. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






18. Renaissance means?






19. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Who was first to discover the new world?






27. Dred Scott was...






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






29. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






30. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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31. Walt Whitman was known as...






32. Who wrote 'Walden'?






33. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






34. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






35. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






36. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






38. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






39. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






40. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






41. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






42. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






43. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






45. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






46. Who invented the cotton gin?






47. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






48. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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