Statistics for Important Cities in US History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City where the Declaration of Independence was signed	Philadelphia	97%
City where witch trials took place in 1692	Salem	94%
The first capital of the United States when the Constitution was signed	New York City	77%
City where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968	Memphis	74%
The battle of the Civil War that had the most casualties took place in this city	Gettysburg	71%
City where the Battle of Alamo took place in 1836	San Antonio	71%
The Capital of the Confederacy	Richmond	68%
City where the bus boycott occurred from 1955-1956	Montgomery	61%
City known as the "Arsenal of Democracy" during World War II for its war manufacturing	Detroit	58%
City where Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 after giving a victory speech when he won the Democratic primary in California	Los Angeles	58%
Oldest city in the United States founded by the Spanish in 1565	St. Augustine	58%
City where General William T. Sherman's march to the sea ended during the Civil War	Savannah	52%
City in Massachusetts that became a booming textile manufacturing center in the 1820s	Lowell	35%
City where abolitionist John Brown led a raid to start a slave uprising	Harpers Ferry	32%
One of the main starting points of the Oregon Trail began in this Missouri city	Independence	23%