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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?






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






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






4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






5. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






8. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






9. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






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






13. Currier and Ives were known as...






14. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






15. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






17. Dorothea Dix reformed...






18. Horace Mann fought for...






19. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






21. Herman Melville was known as...






22. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






24. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






25. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






27. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






28. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






29. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






32. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






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






36. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






37. Walt Whitman was known as...






38. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






39. Who was first to discover the new world?






40. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






41. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






42. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






43. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






45. The temperance movement regulated what?






46. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






47. Dred Scott was...






48. Renaissance means?






49. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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