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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The idea that one branch of government is supervised by another is called...






2. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






4. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






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






8. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






10. Currier and Ives were known as...






11. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






12. Renaissance means?






13. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






15. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






17. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






19. Horace Mann fought for...






20. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






21. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






22. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






24. Who was first to discover the new world?






25. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






29. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






30. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






31. Dorothea Dix reformed...






32. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






33. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






35. Dred Scott was...






36. Walt Whitman was known as...






37. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






38. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






40. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






41. Columbus sailed for what country?






42. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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43. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






45. Herman Melville was known as...






46. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






50. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?