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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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1. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






2. The temperance movement regulated what?






3. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






5. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






7. Dorothea Dix reformed...






8. Dred Scott was...






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






10. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






11. Who invented the cotton gin?






12. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






13. Who was first to discover the new world?






14. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






15. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






16. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






17. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






19. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






20. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






21. Renaissance means?






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






23. Walt Whitman was known as...






24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






25. Herman Melville was known as...






26. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






28. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






29. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






30. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






34. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






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






37. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






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






41. Who wrote 'Walden'?






42. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






43. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






45. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






48. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






49. Currier and Ives were known as...






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?