Statistics for Early American History

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Queston	Answer	% Correct
What land acquisition from France doubled the size of the U.S.?	Louisiana	95%
What state was formerly an independent republic?	Texas	91%
Who was president of the Union?	Abraham Lincoln	89%
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?	Thomas Jefferson	88%
And where was the first 'permanent' English settlement?	Jamestown	84%
What war nearly made the U.S. part of the British Empire again?	The War of 1812	77%
Who assasinated the President in 1865?	John Wilkes Booth	70%
What term is used to describe the period following the Civil War?	Reconstruction	70%
Where did the Pilgrims land in 1620?	Plymouth Rock	68%
Who was president of the Confederacy?	Jefferson Davis	66%
What war lead to America's independence?	Revolutionary War	66%
What policy urged America to stretch west towards the Pacific?	Manifest destiny	64%
Where was the first English settlement attempted in America?	Roanoke	64%
Whose assassination sparked World War 1?	Archduke Ferdinand	57%
Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?	Fort Sumter	43%