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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. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






3. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






5. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






6. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






8. The temperance movement regulated what?






9. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






10. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






11. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






13. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






16. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






17. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






19. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






20. Columbus sailed for what country?






21. Who wrote 'Walden'?






22. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






24. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






25. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






29. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






31. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






34. Walt Whitman was known as...






35. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






37. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






38. Horace Mann fought for...






39. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






40. Dorothea Dix reformed...






41. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






42. Dred Scott was...






43. Renaissance means?






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






45. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






46. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






47. Who invented the cotton gin?






48. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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