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






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






5. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






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






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






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






11. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






12. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






13. Who wrote 'Walden'?






14. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






15. The temperance movement regulated what?






16. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






17. Who was first to discover the new world?






18. Dorothea Dix reformed...






19. Renaissance means?






20. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






22. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






23. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






25. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






26. Currier and Ives were known as...






27. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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28. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






30. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






32. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






35. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






38. Who invented the cotton gin?






39. Dred Scott was...






40. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






41. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






42. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






45. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






46. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






47. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






48. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






49. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






50. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?