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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. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






2. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






4. Walt Whitman was known as...






5. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






6. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






7. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






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






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






12. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






13. Renaissance means?






14. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






16. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






17. Who wrote 'Walden'?






18. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






21. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






22. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






23. Who invented the cotton gin?






24. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






25. Horace Mann fought for...






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






27. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






28. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






31. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






32. Herman Melville was known as...






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






34. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






35. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






36. Columbus sailed for what country?






37. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






39. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






40. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






42. The temperance movement regulated what?






43. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






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






48. Dorothea Dix reformed...






49. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?