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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. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






3. Columbus sailed for what country?






4. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






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






8. Renaissance means?






9. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






12. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






13. Walt Whitman was known as...






14. Dorothea Dix reformed...






15. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






16. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






18. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






20. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






22. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






25. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






26. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


27. Currier and Ives were known as...






28. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






29. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






30. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






31. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






33. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






34. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






38. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






39. Who wrote 'Walden'?






40. The temperance movement regulated what?






41. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






42. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






43. Who invented the cotton gin?






44. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






46. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






47. Herman Melville was known as...






48. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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