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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 protects freedom of religion - speech - press - etc.?






2. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






4. Who invented the cotton gin?






5. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






6. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






7. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






8. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






9. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






11. Renaissance means?






12. Horace Mann fought for...






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






14. Columbus sailed for what country?






15. Walt Whitman was known as...






16. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






17. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






18. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






19. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






21. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






22. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






24. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






25. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






27. Dred Scott was...






28. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






29. The temperance movement regulated what?






30. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






32. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






34. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






35. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






37. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






38. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






40. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






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






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






45. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






46. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






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






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






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