Statistics for U.S. History by Letter- H

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First US college, founded 1636	Harvard	95%
President for only 32 days	William Henry Harrison	85%
First Secretary of Treasury, killed in duel	Alexander Hamilton	84%
Businessman president blamed for Depression	Herbert Hoover	84%
Zeppelin that exploded in Lakehurst, NJ	Hindenburg	76%
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"	Patrick Henry	61%
Texan war hero and president	Sam Houston	58%
Town raided by John Brown in 1859	Harper's Ferry	56%
Wrote "The Scarlet Letter"	Nathaniel Hawthorne	55%
Scandal-ridden president, died in office	Warren Harding	55%
British-hired mercenaries during the Revolution	Hessians	54%
Newspaper magnate with a CA mansion	William Randolph Hearst	49%
1862 act providing Western lands	Homestead Act	35%
Virginia colonial congress	House of Burgesses	15%
1886 bombing of a peaceful labor demonstration	Haymarket Riot	13%
State Department official accused of being a Communist spy in 1948	Alger Hiss	12%
An influential poet, his son a Supreme Court justice	Oliver Wendell Holmes	11%
US Civil War general and 1880 presidential candidate	Winfield Scott Hancock	11%