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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






2. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






3. Herman Melville was known as...






4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






6. Who invented the cotton gin?






7. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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






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






12. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






14. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






15. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






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






19. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






21. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






22. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






25. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






27. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






28. Who was first to discover the new world?






29. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






31. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






33. Dorothea Dix reformed...






34. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






35. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






36. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






38. Dred Scott was...






39. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






42. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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43. The temperance movement regulated what?






44. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






45. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






46. Columbus sailed for what country?






47. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






48. Renaissance means?






49. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






50. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...