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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. Columbus sailed for what country?






2. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






4. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






7. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






8. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






15. The temperance movement regulated what?






16. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






17. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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18. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






19. Dred Scott was...






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






21. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






24. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






25. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






26. Renaissance means?






27. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






28. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






29. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






30. Horace Mann fought for...






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






32. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






33. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






34. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






35. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






36. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






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






40. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






42. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






43. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






44. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






45. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






46. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






49. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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







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