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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. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






4. Renaissance means?






5. Who was first to discover the new world?






6. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






7. Dorothea Dix reformed...






8. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






10. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






11. Herman Melville was known as...






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






13. Dred Scott was...






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






15. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






17. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






18. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






19. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






20. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






23. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






24. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






26. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






27. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






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






31. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






34. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






35. Who wrote 'Walden'?






36. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






38. Horace Mann fought for...






39. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






40. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






41. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






42. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






44. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






45. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






46. Columbus sailed for what country?






47. The temperance movement regulated what?






48. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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