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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. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






2. Horace Mann fought for...






3. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






5. Who invented the cotton gin?






6. Columbus sailed for what country?






7. Renaissance means?






8. Who wrote 'Walden'?






9. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






11. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






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






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






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






15. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






16. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






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






19. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






21. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






24. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






26. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






27. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






28. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






30. The temperance movement regulated what?






31. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






33. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






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






37. Dred Scott was...






38. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






39. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






41. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






42. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






43. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






45. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


46. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






47. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






48. Herman Melville was known as...






49. Currier and Ives were known as...






50. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?