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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Columbus sailed for what country?






2. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






4. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






5. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






7. Renaissance means?






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






9. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






11. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






13. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






14. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






16. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






19. Who wrote 'Walden'?






20. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






21. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






22. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






24. Herman Melville was known as...






25. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






26. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






28. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






29. Dorothea Dix reformed...






30. Who invented the cotton gin?






31. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






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






35. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






36. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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37. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






38. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






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






42. The temperance movement regulated what?






43. Who was first to discover the new world?






44. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






45. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






48. Currier and Ives were known as...






49. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






50. Lincoln was assaassinated by?