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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. Which Amendment is about the right to bear arms?






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






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






4. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






6. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






8. Renaissance means?






9. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






11. Walt Whitman was known as...






12. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






13. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






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






16. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






17. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






18. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






20. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






22. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






23. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






24. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






25. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






28. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






29. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






30. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






31. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






34. Horace Mann fought for...






35. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






36. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






38. Herman Melville was known as...






39. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






40. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






41. Dred Scott was...






42. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






45. Currier and Ives were known as...






46. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






47. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






48. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






49. Who wrote 'Walden'?






50. Who was first to discover the new world?