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CLEP U.S. History

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






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






3. Renaissance means?






4. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






5. Who invented the cotton gin?






6. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






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






10. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






11. Herman Melville was known as...






12. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






13. Walt Whitman was known as...






14. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






15. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






17. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






19. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






21. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






22. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






24. Dred Scott was...






25. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






27. Who wrote 'Walden'?






28. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






30. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






31. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






32. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






33. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


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






35. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






38. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






39. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






40. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






41. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






42. Who was first to discover the new world?






43. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






45. Dorothea Dix reformed...






46. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






49. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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