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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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






3. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






4. Who was first to discover the new world?






5. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






6. Dorothea Dix reformed...






7. Dred Scott was...






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






9. The temperance movement regulated what?






10. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






11. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






12. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






13. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






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






17. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






20. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






21. Who invented the cotton gin?






22. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






25. Horace Mann fought for...






26. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






27. Renaissance means?






28. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






30. Currier and Ives were known as...






31. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






32. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






33. Who wrote 'Walden'?






34. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


35. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






37. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






39. Herman Melville was known as...






40. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






42. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






45. Columbus sailed for what country?






46. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






47. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






49. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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