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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 gold rush of 1849 sent settlers to what state?






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






3. The temperance movement regulated what?






4. The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

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5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT do?






6. Nathanier Hawthorne was known as...






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






8. The Morill Tariff Act did what?






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






10. The Three-fifths Compromise refers to what?






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






12. Who wrote 'Walden'?






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






14. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?






15. Herman Melville was known as...






16. Which Amendment awards power to individual states?






17. Walt Whitman was known as...






18. Who was nicknamed 'Unconditional Surrender'?






19. What were the names of Columbus' ships?






20. Columbus sailed for what country?






21. Dorothea Dix reformed...






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






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






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






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






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






27. Which President had a largely abolitionist cause?






28. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was known as...






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






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






31. Louisa May Alcott was known as...






32. Who invented the cotton gin?






33. Dred Scott was...






34. John Greenleaf Whittier was known as...






35. Currier and Ives were known as...






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






37. Who was first to discover the new world?






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






39. Lincoln was assaassinated by?






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






41. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as...






42. Who wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner'?






43. Edgar Allan Poe was known as ...






44. Which Amendment guarantees due process?






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






46. Henry David Thoreau was known as...






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






48. Horace Mann fought for...






49. Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers'?






50. Who wrote 'Common Sense'?