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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. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






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






5. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






6. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






8. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






9. Columbus sailed for what country?






10. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






12. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






14. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






15. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






16. Dorothea Dix reformed...






17. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






18. Who invented the cotton gin?






19. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






20. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






23. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






27. The temperance movement regulated what?






28. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






31. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






32. Herman Melville was known as...






33. Horace Mann fought for...






34. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






36. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






39. Walt Whitman was known as...






40. Currier and Ives were known as...






41. Dred Scott was...






42. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






44. Renaissance means?






45. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






47. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






49. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?