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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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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. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






2. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






3. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






4. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






5. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






7. Dred Scott was...






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






9. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






10. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






11. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






14. Columbus sailed for what country?






15. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






16. Renaissance means?






17. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






18. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






21. Who wrote 'Walden'?






22. Currier and Ives were known as...






23. Walt Whitman was known as...






24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






27. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


28. Horace Mann fought for...






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






30. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






31. Dorothea Dix reformed...






32. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






34. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






35. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






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






39. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






41. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






42. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






43. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






44. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






45. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






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






49. Who was first to discover the new world?






50. Henry David Thoreau was known as...