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






2. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






3. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






4. Dorothea Dix reformed...






5. Currier and Ives were known as...






6. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






7. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






9. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






10. Who wrote 'Walden'?






11. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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12. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






14. Columbus sailed for what country?






15. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






16. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






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






20. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






21. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






22. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






23. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






26. Renaissance means?






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






28. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






29. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






30. The temperance movement regulated what?






31. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






34. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






36. Horace Mann fought for...






37. Walt Whitman was known as...






38. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






39. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






41. Herman Melville was known as...






42. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






44. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






45. Dred Scott was...






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






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






48. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






49. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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