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






2. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






4. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






5. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






7. Columbus sailed for what country?






8. Renaissance means?






9. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






10. Dred Scott was...






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






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






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






14. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






15. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






17. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






18. Walt Whitman was known as...






19. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






22. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






24. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






26. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


27. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






28. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






29. Herman Melville was known as...






30. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






31. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






32. Dorothea Dix reformed...






33. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






34. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






35. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






36. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






39. Who invented the cotton gin?






40. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






43. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






44. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






45. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






48. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






50. Who was first to discover the new world?