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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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1. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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2. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






3. Who invented the cotton gin?






4. Horace Mann fought for...






5. Dred Scott was...






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






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






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






9. Dorothea Dix reformed...






10. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






12. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






13. Renaissance means?






14. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






15. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






16. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






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






19. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






20. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






21. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






24. The temperance movement regulated what?






25. Currier and Ives were known as...






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






29. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






30. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






31. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






32. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






34. Walt Whitman was known as...






35. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






36. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






39. Who was first to discover the new world?






40. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






41. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






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






45. Who wrote 'Walden'?






46. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






49. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






50. Herman Melville was known as...