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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. Dred Scott was...






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






3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






5. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






6. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






7. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






9. Who wrote 'Walden'?






10. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






11. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






14. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






15. Who was first to discover the new world?






16. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






18. The temperance movement regulated what?






19. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






22. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






24. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






25. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






28. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






30. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






32. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






33. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






35. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






36. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






38. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






39. Columbus sailed for what country?






40. Renaissance means?






41. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






42. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






44. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






45. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






47. Horace Mann fought for...






48. Herman Melville was known as...






49. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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