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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. Who invented the cotton gin?






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






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






4. Currier and Ives were known as...






5. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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






8. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






9. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






11. Dred Scott was...






12. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






14. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






16. Columbus sailed for what country?






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






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






19. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






20. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






21. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






22. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






24. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






25. Renaissance means?






26. Horace Mann fought for...






27. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?


28. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






30. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






31. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






33. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






34. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






35. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






36. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






38. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






40. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






42. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






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






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






46. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






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






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






49. Dorothea Dix reformed...






50. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?