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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






2. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






3. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






6. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


7. Who invented the cotton gin?






8. The temperance movement regulated what?






9. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






10. Horace Mann fought for...






11. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






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






18. Currier and Ives were known as...






19. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






20. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






21. Herman Melville was known as...






22. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






25. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






27. Who was first to discover the new world?






28. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






30. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






31. Dred Scott was...






32. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






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






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






37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






38. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






39. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






40. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






41. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






43. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






45. Dorothea Dix reformed...






46. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






49. Renaissance means?






50. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?