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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. Renaissance means?






2. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






4. Horace Mann fought for...






5. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






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






9. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






13. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


14. Who invented the cotton gin?






15. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






16. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






17. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






18. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






20. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






22. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






23. Dorothea Dix reformed...






24. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






26. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






28. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






29. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






31. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






33. Herman Melville was known as...






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






35. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






37. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






38. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






40. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






41. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






42. Dred Scott was...






43. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






45. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






46. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






49. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






50. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?