Statistics for History of Maine

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Europeans who may have discovered Eastern Maine around 1200 AD	Vikings	100%
The first National Park East of the Mississippi, established 1916	Acadia National Park	91%
Mythical lumberjack with a statue in Bangor	Paul Bunyan	91%
The Capital before Augusta, now Maine's largest city	Portland	91%
War caused by the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898	Spanish-American War	91%
Author that published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852	Harriet Beecher Stowe	82%
State that Maine was originally a part of	Massachusetts	82%
City where the famous photo of Muhammed Ali standing over Sonny Liston was captured	Lewiston	64%
The act that made Maine a State in 1820	Missouri Compromise	55%
Important shipbuilding city that has made many ships for the Navy	Bath	36%
Mainer chosen as Abraham Lincoln's 1st Vice President	Hannibal Hamlin	36%
First women to serve in both houses of Congress	Margaret Chase Smith	36%
Native American group who killed many early settlers, fighting in King Philip's War	Wabanaki	36%
Border dispute with Canada that almost led to war in the 1830s	Aroostook War	27%
First confirmed European settlement in Maine	St. Croix Island	18%