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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. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






3. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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4. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






8. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






11. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






14. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






16. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






17. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






18. Horace Mann fought for...






19. The temperance movement regulated what?






20. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






22. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






23. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






25. Dred Scott was...






26. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






27. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






28. Who wrote 'Walden'?






29. Renaissance means?






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






31. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






34. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






35. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






36. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






38. Walt Whitman was known as...






39. Who was first to discover the new world?






40. Herman Melville was known as...






41. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






43. Columbus sailed for what country?






44. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






46. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






47. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






49. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






50. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?