Statistics for This Day in United States - July 4th

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Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
1776	This declaration is approved.	Independence	92%
1886	The Government of France offers this statue to the people of the United States.	Statue of Liberty	88%
1803	The purchase of this big group of states is announced to the American people.	Louisiana	85%
1826	This president, considered one of the nation's founding fathers, dies in Virginia.	Thomas Jefferson	85%
1960	This current state becomes a territory of the United States.	Hawaii	77%
1826	This president, leader of the American revolution dies in Massachusetts	John Adams	73%
1827	The slavery is abolished in this state	New York	62%
1817	In Rome, New York, begins the construction of this canal.	Erie Canal	58%
1946	This country becomes independent from the United States	Philippines	54%
1977	The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation in this state capitol	Washington	54%
1995	This American painter host of "The Joy of Painting" dies in Florida	Bob Ross	46%
1881	This institute is opened in Alabama, where a syphilis experiment will be conducted.	Tuskegee Institute	42%
1996	In Los Angeles, Indian computer scientist Sabir Bhatia launches this web site, the first free e-mail	Hotmail	27%
1910	In Reno, African-American boxer knocks out white supremacist boxer Jim Jeffries.	Jack Johnson	12%
2003	This singer, with more than 100 million records sold, dies in Los Angeles.	Barry White	0%