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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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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. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






3. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






4. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






5. Currier and Ives were known as...






6. Dorothea Dix reformed...






7. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






10. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






14. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






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






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






19. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






21. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






22. Who invented the cotton gin?






23. Horace Mann fought for...






24. Who wrote 'Walden'?






25. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






27. Who was first to discover the new world?






28. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






29. Columbus sailed for what country?






30. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






31. Herman Melville was known as...






32. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






33. Dred Scott was...






34. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






35. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






36. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






39. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






40. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






41. Renaissance means?






42. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






45. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






47. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






48. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






49. The temperance movement regulated what?






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