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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. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






3. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






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






6. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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7. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






10. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






13. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






14. The temperance movement regulated what?






15. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






17. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






19. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






20. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






22. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






23. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






25. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






26. Renaissance means?






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






28. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






30. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






31. Currier and Ives were known as...






32. Who wrote 'Walden'?






33. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






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






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






36. Dred Scott was...






37. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






38. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






40. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






41. Horace Mann fought for...






42. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






43. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






44. Who was first to discover the new world?






45. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






48. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






50. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...