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Events in U.S. History

We give you the date. You tell us what happened. (Fill in the blanks).
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Date
Year
Event
Aug 15
1969
Woodstock music festival begins
Jan 8
1964
LBJ declares war on poverty
Apr 17
1961
The start of the Bay of Pigs invasion
Dec 1
1955
Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white passenger
Sep 30
1935
The Hoover Dam is dedicated on the Colorado River
Dec 5
1933
Prohibition is repealed by the 21st amendment
May 21
1927
Lindbergh makes the first non-stop flight between New York and Paris
July 13
1925
Start of the Scopes "monkey trial" in Tennessee
Dec 26
1919
Babe Ruth is sold to the Yankees
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1891
James Naismith invents basketball
Dec 29
1890
Native Americans are massacred by U.S. soldiers at Wounded Knee
Jun 26
1876
Custer's last stand
Mar 30
1867
U.S. buys Alaska from Russia
Jul 1
1863
The Battle of Gettysburg begins
Jan 1
1863
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
Mar 2
1836
Texas declares independence from Mexico
Oct 26
1825
The Erie Canal opens, connecting the Great Lakes to the Hudson River
Dec 7
1787
Delaware becomes the 1st state to ratify the Constitution
Nov 11
1620
The Mayflower makes landfall in Massachusetts
Apr 26
1607
Settlers land at Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
communisteggplant
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Level 73
Jul 16, 2018
For the Mayflower one, why not just make it November 11, 1620- Mayflower (first) makes landfall in Massachusetts? It's not known when the Mayflower actually landed in Plymouth Harbor, and it might have not been until 1621 anyway. (Also, while Plymouth Rock makes for a nice tourist attraction, there's no historical proof they landed on that rock.)
JWC1202
+4
Level 74
Jul 16, 2018
Truth be told Plymouth Rock does not even make for a particularly nice tourist attraction, particularly given the wealth of historical attractions that are actually worthwhile in the area.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jul 17, 2018
Changed the clue. Thanks @communisteggplant.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Oct 18, 2018
I've been to Plymouth Rock. and had an ancestor on the Mayflower (Edward Winslow)
Gyroscope
+1
Level 66
Oct 18, 2018
Thanks, will check him out.
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 89
Oct 20, 2018
Crap, I had all sorts of relatives on the Mayflower. Kalbahamut and I may share 1/1,048,576th the same DNA.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Sep 19, 2020
probably a significantly higher proportion than that, someone.
kamata
+1
Level 61
Sep 29, 2021
i said puritans instead of mayflower

i got the question wrong

caribdevist
+1
Level 62
Jul 17, 2018
Like I wasn't going to cheat on the Naismith question.
travelfan
+3
Level 67
Jul 18, 2018
Why would you need to cheat?? It's one of the easiest quesitons on the quiz!
Algernon
+3
Level 72
Jul 26, 2018
Not easy if you're not American.
Djilas
+7
Level 82
Jul 29, 2018
Should be easy for Canadians
TenThousand
+1
Level 76
Jul 21, 2018
Not for me, until now. But now I know.
Algernon
+4
Level 72
Jul 26, 2018
I must have tried every conceivable answer for the second question, bar the blinking correct answer. Frustrating.
Sly67
+5
Level 73
Jul 30, 2018
What ?? LBJ doesn't stand for Le Bron James ?? :-)
SenileS
+4
Level 49
Oct 18, 2018
I didn't get it. Did he win the war?
jm
+1
Level 84
Oct 18, 2018
It's ongoing.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Oct 20, 2018
The poor people do the all the fighting in war. They're hard to beat.
kogatora
+1
Level 93
Oct 21, 2019
Very much ongoing as poverty went from around 19% to 15% in a short time and more or less stayed there (although it seems there has been a big improvement for over 65s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty).
ander217
+2
Level 75
Oct 18, 2018
What did the Yankees buy - some field or plot of land, some stadium in New York? Oh, yeah, it's legal for ball teams to buy and sell people. Finally got it after way too much overthinking it.
dbyeti
+2
Level 66
Oct 18, 2018
Some of these are very strange as "historical events" - the invention of basketball, the Babe Ruth question.
Walacama
+1
Level 81
Oct 18, 2018
They are historical, but maybe not historic.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Oct 18, 2018
I've been to Wounded Knee. It's still a stark, sad place, located in one of the poorest counties in the US. We visited it the day after seeing the Custer Monument at Little Bighorn. Quite a contrast, although some historians are now saying the Wounded Knee massacre wasn't necessarily in retaliation for Little Bighorn but due to other reasons. The damaged, locally-run Wounded Knee center also stands as a monument to the occupation and shootings of the Wounded Knee Incident in 1973.
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Oct 18, 2018
"Not in retaliation for the Little Bighorn". Yeah right!
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Oct 20, 2018
It was because they wouldn't sign away land full of valuprecious metals the U.S. just plain wanted.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Sep 19, 2020
I'm not an expert on the subject, but it didn't play out as revenge n the HBO movie I watched about the massacre, and coming so many years later it seems like an odd conclusion to make that it was otherwise.
Margles1
+4
Level 41
Oct 18, 2018
The LBJ one was tricky, at least for me. All I could think of was Vietnam, and I knew that we never officially declared war on Vietnam. I was racking my brains trying to think of a country!

I asked my husband and he answered it immediately. Once he said the answer I had to laugh because it seemed so obvious then.

tuzdayschild
+2
Level 56
Oct 30, 2018
We didn't do any better with the war on poverty than we did with Vietnam.
Papaya
+5
Level 47
Oct 18, 2018
Too US-centric ;) (I'm sorry)
tuzdayschild
+1
Level 56
Oct 30, 2018
You did read the title of this quiz didn't you?
Papaya
+7
Level 47
Feb 1, 2019
I did wink
willmowill
+2
Level 80
Oct 18, 2018
Technically Jamestown wasn't there when they landed. ;)
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 89
Oct 20, 2018
Rome wasn't there when Rome was founded, so how did they find Rome?
tuzdayschild
+2
Level 56
Oct 30, 2018
Remus and Romulus roamed into it
Martinvanburen
+1
Level 54
Sep 30, 2020
woudn't vinland be the first colony in the americas
gordito7
+1
Level 52
Jul 18, 2021
vinland was viking
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Mar 13, 2023
It wasn't permanently settled
Chutney
+1
Level 62
Sep 13, 2022
basketball is Canadian.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Sep 13, 2022
No
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Mar 2, 2023
Lol for the LBJ one I was surprised that it was on my birthday and yet I didn't know it, and then it turned out to be a fake war
pogtato1
+1
Level 61
Dec 7, 2023
The 18th amendment could also be an answer for the prohibition question
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