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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 was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?






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






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






4. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






5. Who invented the cotton gin?






6. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






8. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






11. Columbus sailed for what country?






12. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






14. Currier and Ives were known as...






15. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






16. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






17. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






18. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






19. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






20. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






21. The temperance movement regulated what?






22. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






23. Dred Scott was...






24. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






27. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






28. Horace Mann fought for...






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






30. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






31. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






32. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






33. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






34. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






36. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






37. Renaissance means?






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






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






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






41. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






42. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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43. Herman Melville was known as...






44. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






45. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






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






49. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






50. Who wrote 'Walden'?