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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which preacher did skits and dramatizations in his sermons?






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






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






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






7. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






8. Dorothea Dix reformed...






9. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






11. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






12. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






13. Who was first to discover the new world?






14. Who invented the cotton gin?






15. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






17. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






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






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






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






22. Who wrote 'Walden'?






23. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






24. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






27. Horace Mann fought for...






28. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






29. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






30. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






32. The temperance movement regulated what?






33. Herman Melville was known as...






34. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






35. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






36. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






37. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






39. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






40. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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41. Dred Scott was...






42. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






44. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






45. Renaissance means?






46. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






47. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






49. Columbus sailed for what country?






50. The Morill Tariff Act did what?







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