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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. While men were away at war - women did what?






2. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






3. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






6. The temperance movement regulated what?






7. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






9. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






11. Currier and Ives were known as...






12. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






13. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






16. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






17. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






19. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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20. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






21. Dred Scott was...






22. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






23. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






24. Horace Mann fought for...






25. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






26. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






27. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






28. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






29. Columbus sailed for what country?






30. Who invented the cotton gin?






31. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






34. Herman Melville was known as...






35. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






38. Renaissance means?






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






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






41. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






42. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






43. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






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






46. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






47. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






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






50. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...







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