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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Dorothea Dix reformed...






2. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






3. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






4. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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5. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






6. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






7. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






8. Dred Scott was...






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






10. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






13. Herman Melville was known as...






14. Renaissance means?






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






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






17. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






18. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






19. Horace Mann fought for...






20. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






21. Who wrote 'Walden'?






22. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






24. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






25. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






27. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






28. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






30. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






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






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






35. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






37. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






39. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






40. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






41. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






42. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






43. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






46. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






47. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






49. Currier and Ives were known as...






50. Columbus sailed for what country?







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