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






2. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






4. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






8. Who invented the cotton gin?






9. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






11. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






12. Horace Mann fought for...






13. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






14. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






16. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






18. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






19. Renaissance means?






20. Dred Scott was...






21. Currier and Ives were known as...






22. Who was first to discover the new world?






23. Herman Melville was known as...






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






25. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






26. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






27. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






29. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






30. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






32. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






33. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






36. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






38. Who wrote 'Walden'?






39. Columbus sailed for what country?






40. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






42. The temperance movement regulated what?






43. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






45. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






48. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






49. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






50. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?