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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. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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3. Dorothea Dix reformed...






4. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






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






6. Walt Whitman was known as...






7. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






8. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






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






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






11. Herman Melville was known as...






12. Who wrote 'Walden'?






13. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






14. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






16. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






17. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






18. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






19. The temperance movement regulated what?






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






21. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






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






24. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






26. Renaissance means?






27. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






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






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






30. Horace Mann fought for...






31. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






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






33. Dred Scott was...






34. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






36. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






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






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






39. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






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






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






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






43. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






44. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






45. Currier and Ives were known as...






46. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






47. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






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






49. Columbus sailed for what country?






50. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...