Statistics for U.S. Presidents by Event

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Event	President	% Correct
The September 11 attacks	George W. Bush	98%
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor	Franklin Roosevelt	93%
The Cuban Missile Crisis	John F. Kennedy	91%
The Apollo 11 moon landing	Richard Nixon	86%
Nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki	Harry Truman	83%
The Louisiana Purchase	Thomas Jefferson	80%
The U.S. enters WWI (after this President promised to stay out of it)	Woodrow Wilson	78%
The Civil Rights Act outlaws racial, gender, and religious discrimination	Lyndon B. Johnson	77%
The Great Depression begins	Herbert Hoover	76%
Washington D.C. becomes capital of the United States	John Adams	76%
Iran takes hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran	Jimmy Carter	75%
The U.S. starts construction on the Panama Canal	Theodore Roosevelt	69%
The Battle of Fort Sumter	Abraham Lincoln	64%
The signing of the Indian Removal Act marks the start of the "Trail of Tears"	Andrew Jackson	64%
British troops capture and burn Washington D.C.	James Madison	63%
Construction begins on the Interstate Highway System	Dwight Eisenhower	58%
Americans revolt over taxes in the "Whiskey Rebellion"	George Washington	42%
The Spanish-American War	William McKinley	41%
The Teapot Dome scandal	Warren Harding	39%
The "Golden Spike" completes the Transcontinental Railroad	Ulysses S. Grant	37%