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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 awards power to individual states?






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






4. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






6. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






8. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






11. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






12. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






14. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






15. Who invented the cotton gin?






16. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






17. Horace Mann fought for...






18. Renaissance means?






19. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






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






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






24. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






25. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






28. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






29. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






32. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






33. Walt Whitman was known as...






34. Who wrote 'Walden'?






35. Currier and Ives were known as...






36. The temperance movement regulated what?






37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






38. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






39. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






40. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






42. Columbus sailed for what country?






43. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






44. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






45. Dred Scott was...






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






47. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






50. Who was first to discover the new world?