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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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1. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






3. Renaissance means?






4. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






5. Herman Melville was known as...






6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






8. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






11. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






12. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






15. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






17. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






18. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






22. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






24. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






25. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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26. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






28. Who invented the cotton gin?






29. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






30. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






31. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






33. Horace Mann fought for...






34. The temperance movement regulated what?






35. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






37. Dred Scott was...






38. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






40. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






41. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






43. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






45. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






46. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






48. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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