Statistics for Important American Dates

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Declaration of Independence signed	1776	88%
USA recognition	1783	81%
Civil War ends, Lincoln assassinated	1865	81%
D-Day occurs	1944	81%
Hiroshima and Nagasaki get nuked, WWII ends	1945	81%
JFK assassinated, MLK's I Have A Dream Speech	1963	81%
Neil Armstrong is first man on the moon	1969	81%
9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Afghanistan War begins	2001	81%
George Washington becomes first US president	1789	75%
Civil War begins	1861	75%
Emancipation Proclamation	1863	75%
USA enters WWI	1917	75%
WWI ends	1918	75%
Stock Market Crash, Great Depression begins	1929	75%
USA is bombed by Japan, USA joins WWII	1941	75%
Cuban Missile Crisis	1962	75%
Vietnam War ends	1975	75%
USSR collapses, Cold War ends	1991	75%
Hurrican Katrina	2005	75%
War in Afghanistan ends, First Woman VP, Kamala Harris	2021	75%
Spanish American War	1898	69%
Panama Canal opens	1914	69%
USA defeats Japan at the Battle of Midway	1942	69%
Cold War begins	1946	69%
NATO founded	1949	69%
Korean War begins	1950	69%
Korean War ends in stalemate	1953	69%
Vietnam War begins	1955	69%
Bay of Pigs Invasion	1961	69%
Civil Rights Act	1964	69%
America's first black descended president, Barack Obama, becomes president	2009	69%
Louisiana Purchase	1803	63%
War against Canada and UK	1812	63%
White House burnt	1814	63%
Texas is annexed by the US	1845	63%
Mexican American War begins	1846	63%
Mexican American War ends in US victory	1848	63%
California Gold Rush	1849	63%
Panama Canal construction begins	1904	63%
FDR becomes president and initiates the New Deal	1933	63%
Alaska Purchase	1867	56%
Fourteenth Amendment	1868	56%