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






2. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






3. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






5. Currier and Ives were known as...






6. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






8. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






10. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






11. Horace Mann fought for...






12. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






14. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






16. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






17. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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18. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






22. Dred Scott was...






23. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






24. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






25. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






27. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






30. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






32. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






34. Who was first to discover the new world?






35. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






36. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






37. Herman Melville was known as...






38. Walt Whitman was known as...






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






40. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






41. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






42. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






43. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






44. The temperance movement regulated what?






45. Who invented the cotton gin?






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






47. Renaissance means?






48. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






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