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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. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






2. Who invented the cotton gin?






3. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






4. The temperance movement regulated what?






5. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






6. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






7. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






10. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






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






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






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






16. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






18. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






19. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






20. Horace Mann fought for...






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






22. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






24. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






27. Currier and Ives were known as...






28. Who wrote 'Walden'?






29. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






30. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






32. Renaissance means?






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






34. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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35. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






37. Walt Whitman was known as...






38. Dred Scott was...






39. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






40. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






42. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






43. Dorothea Dix reformed...






44. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






47. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






48. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






50. Lincoln was assaassinated by?