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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






2. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






3. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






5. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






7. Horace Mann fought for...






8. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






10. The temperance movement regulated what?






11. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






13. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






15. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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16. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






18. Dorothea Dix reformed...






19. Dred Scott was...






20. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






21. Who was first to discover the new world?






22. Renaissance means?






23. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






26. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






28. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






30. Currier and Ives were known as...






31. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






32. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






35. Who invented the cotton gin?






36. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






38. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






40. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






43. Herman Melville was known as...






44. Walt Whitman was known as...






45. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






47. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






50. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...