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






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






3. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






5. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






6. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






7. Who was first to discover the new world?






8. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






9. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






10. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






12. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






14. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






15. Renaissance means?






16. Who wrote 'Walden'?






17. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






18. Currier and Ives were known as...






19. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






22. Dred Scott was...






23. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






25. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






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






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






29. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






31. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






33. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






34. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


35. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






36. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






37. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






38. Herman Melville was known as...






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






40. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






42. Horace Mann fought for...






43. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






45. Walt Whitman was known as...






46. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






47. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






48. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?