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CLEP U.S. History

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who gave the sermon 'City upon a Hill'?






2. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






5. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






6. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






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






9. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






10. The temperance movement regulated what?






11. Dred Scott was...






12. Herman Melville was known as...






13. Horace Mann fought for...






14. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






17. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






18. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






20. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






22. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






23. Who was first to discover the new world?






24. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






25. Currier and Ives were known as...






26. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






27. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






29. Renaissance means?






30. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






31. Who wrote 'Walden'?






32. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






33. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






34. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






35. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






36. Walt Whitman was known as...






37. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






39. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






41. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






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






45. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






47. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






49. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?