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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. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


2. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






3. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






4. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






7. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






9. Who wrote 'Walden'?






10. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






11. Renaissance means?






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






13. Dorothea Dix reformed...






14. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






15. Dred Scott was...






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






17. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






18. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






19. Currier and Ives were known as...






20. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






23. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






25. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






26. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






27. The temperance movement regulated what?






28. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






29. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






30. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






32. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






33. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






34. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






37. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






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






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






42. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






44. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






46. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






48. Columbus sailed for what country?






49. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






50. Horace Mann fought for...