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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. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






3. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






5. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






6. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






9. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






10. Horace Mann fought for...






11. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






13. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






15. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






18. Dred Scott was...






19. The temperance movement regulated what?






20. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






22. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






24. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


25. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






26. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






27. Who wrote 'Walden'?






28. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






30. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






31. Renaissance means?






32. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






34. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






35. Herman Melville was known as...






36. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






39. Who invented the cotton gin?






40. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






41. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






43. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






44. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






45. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






46. Columbus sailed for what country?






47. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






49. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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