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






2. The temperance movement regulated what?






3. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






6. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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7. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






8. Dred Scott was...






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






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






11. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






12. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






13. Walt Whitman was known as...






14. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






17. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






18. Horace Mann fought for...






19. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






21. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






22. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






23. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






24. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






28. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






29. Herman Melville was known as...






30. Who wrote 'Walden'?






31. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






33. Dorothea Dix reformed...






34. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






35. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






37. Who invented the cotton gin?






38. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






41. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






43. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






44. Renaissance means?






45. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






48. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






49. Who was first to discover the new world?






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