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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. Who invented the cotton gin?






2. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






4. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






6. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






8. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






9. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






10. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






12. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






13. Who was first to discover the new world?






14. Dred Scott was...






15. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






18. Horace Mann fought for...






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






20. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






22. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






24. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






25. Walt Whitman was known as...






26. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






28. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






29. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






30. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






31. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






32. Columbus sailed for what country?






33. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






34. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






35. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






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






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






40. Renaissance means?






41. Who wrote 'Walden'?






42. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






45. Currier and Ives were known as...






46. Dorothea Dix reformed...






47. Herman Melville was known as...






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






50. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...