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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. Walt Whitman was known as...






2. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






3. Columbus sailed for what country?






4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






5. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






6. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






8. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






10. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






12. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






14. Herman Melville was known as...






15. Who was first to discover the new world?






16. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






19. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






20. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






24. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






27. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






30. Currier and Ives were known as...






31. Horace Mann fought for...






32. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






34. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






35. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






37. The temperance movement regulated what?






38. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






39. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






40. Dred Scott was...






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






42. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






43. Dorothea Dix reformed...






44. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






47. Renaissance means?






48. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






49. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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