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






2. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






3. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






5. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






7. Renaissance means?






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






9. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






11. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






12. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






14. Horace Mann fought for...






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






16. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






17. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






19. Who was first to discover the new world?






20. Who wrote 'Walden'?






21. Currier and Ives were known as...






22. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






23. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






24. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


25. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






26. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






27. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






28. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






30. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






31. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






33. Dred Scott was...






34. Herman Melville was known as...






35. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






36. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






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






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






41. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






42. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






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






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






47. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






48. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






50. Louisa May Alcott was known as...