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CLEP U.S. History

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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. Renaissance means?






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






4. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






6. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






8. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






9. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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10. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






13. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






15. Dorothea Dix reformed...






16. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






20. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






22. The temperance movement regulated what?






23. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






24. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






25. Dred Scott was...






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






27. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






30. Who invented the cotton gin?






31. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






32. Who was first to discover the new world?






33. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






34. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






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






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






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






40. Horace Mann fought for...






41. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






43. Herman Melville was known as...






44. Who wrote 'Walden'?






45. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






46. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






47. Columbus sailed for what country?






48. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






49. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






50. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?