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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. Currier and Ives were known as...






2. Herman Melville was known as...






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






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






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






6. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






8. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






10. Dorothea Dix reformed...






11. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






12. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






13. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






15. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






16. Renaissance means?






17. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






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






20. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






21. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






22. Who was first to discover the new world?






23. Horace Mann fought for...






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






25. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






26. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






28. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






30. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






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






32. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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33. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






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






36. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






37. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






39. Dred Scott was...






40. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






41. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






43. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






45. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






47. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






48. Who wrote 'Walden'?






49. Walt Whitman was known as...






50. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...