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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The person who assassinated Lincoln shouted the following after committing the murder 'Sic simper tyrannis'. What does it mean?






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






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






4. Horace Mann fought for...






5. Who invented the cotton gin?






6. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






7. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






8. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






9. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






10. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






12. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






14. Dorothea Dix reformed...






15. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






16. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






18. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






19. Who wrote 'Walden'?






20. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






23. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






24. Dred Scott was...






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






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






27. Who was first to discover the new world?






28. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






30. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






31. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






32. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






35. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






36. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






37. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






39. The temperance movement regulated what?






40. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






42. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






44. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






45. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






47. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






48. Renaissance means?






49. Currier and Ives were known as...






50. Herman Melville was known as...







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