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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. Walt Whitman was known as...






2. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






8. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






9. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






10. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


11. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






12. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






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






16. Who invented the cotton gin?






17. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






19. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






20. Who wrote 'Walden'?






21. Dorothea Dix reformed...






22. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






25. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






26. Horace Mann fought for...






27. Currier and Ives were known as...






28. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






29. Who was first to discover the new world?






30. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






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






34. Dred Scott was...






35. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






36. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






38. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






41. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






42. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






43. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






45. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






46. Renaissance means?






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






48. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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