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CLEP U.S. History

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 was a key conductor in the Underground Railroad?






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






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






4. Who was first to discover the new world?






5. Who wrote 'Walden'?






6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






7. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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






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






10. Columbus sailed for what country?






11. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






12. Walt Whitman was known as...






13. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?






14. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






15. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






16. Renaissance means?






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






18. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






19. The temperance movement regulated what?






20. Who invented the cotton gin?






21. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






22. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






23. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






24. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






25. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






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






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






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






29. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






31. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






32. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






35. Dred Scott was...






36. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






37. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






38. Herman Melville was known as...






39. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






40. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






41. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






42. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






43. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






44. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






47. Horace Mann fought for...






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






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






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







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