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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. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






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






4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






6. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






7. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






9. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






11. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






12. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






15. Horace Mann fought for...






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






17. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


18. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






22. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






25. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






26. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






27. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






28. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






30. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






32. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






34. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






35. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






36. Walt Whitman was known as...






37. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






38. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






39. Herman Melville was known as...






40. Dred Scott was...






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






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






43. Renaissance means?






44. Columbus sailed for what country?






45. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






46. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






47. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






48. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






50. Louisa May Alcott was known as...