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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 first to discover the new world?






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






3. Dred Scott was...






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






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






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






7. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






9. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






10. Columbus sailed for what country?






11. The temperance movement regulated what?






12. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






15. Dorothea Dix reformed...






16. Renaissance means?






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






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






19. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






21. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






22. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






24. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






25. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






28. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






31. Who wrote 'Walden'?






32. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






33. Walt Whitman was known as...






34. Herman Melville was known as...






35. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






37. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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38. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






39. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






41. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






42. Who invented the cotton gin?






43. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






44. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






45. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






46. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






48. Horace Mann fought for...






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






50. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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