Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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 gold rush of 1849 sent settlers to what state?






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






3. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






4. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






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






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






9. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






11. Herman Melville was known as...






12. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






13. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






14. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






15. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






16. Horace Mann fought for...






17. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






18. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






20. Who invented the cotton gin?






21. Who wrote 'Walden'?






22. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






23. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






25. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






27. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






29. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






31. Dred Scott was...






32. Walt Whitman was known as...






33. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






35. The temperance movement regulated what?






36. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






37. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






40. Columbus sailed for what country?






41. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






43. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






44. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






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






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






49. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






50. Renaissance means?