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






2. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






3. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






5. Currier and Ives were known as...






6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






7. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






9. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






10. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






11. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






12. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






13. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






16. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






17. Who wrote 'Walden'?






18. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






21. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






22. Dred Scott was...






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






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






25. Walt Whitman was known as...






26. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






27. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






29. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






31. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






32. Dorothea Dix reformed...






33. Herman Melville was known as...






34. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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35. Who was first to discover the new world?






36. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






37. Horace Mann fought for...






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






39. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






40. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






42. Renaissance means?






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






44. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






46. The temperance movement regulated what?






47. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






48. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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