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CLEP U.S. History

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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. Columbus sailed for what country?






2. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






3. Who wrote 'Walden'?






4. Who invented the cotton gin?






5. Dorothea Dix reformed...






6. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






7. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






10. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






11. Walt Whitman was known as...






12. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






13. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






15. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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






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






20. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






21. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






24. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






27. Currier and Ives were known as...






28. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






29. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






30. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






31. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






32. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






34. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






36. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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37. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






38. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






40. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






42. Renaissance means?






43. The temperance movement regulated what?






44. Dred Scott was...






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






46. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






48. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






50. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...