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






2. Dred Scott was...






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






4. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






6. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






7. The temperance movement regulated what?






8. Horace Mann fought for...






9. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






11. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






12. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






15. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






18. Herman Melville was known as...






19. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


20. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






21. Who wrote 'Walden'?






22. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






23. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






25. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






28. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






29. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






30. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






32. Currier and Ives were known as...






33. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






34. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






36. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






39. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






40. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






42. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






43. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






45. Renaissance means?






46. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






47. Columbus sailed for what country?






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






49. Who was first to discover the new world?






50. Walt Whitman was known as...