Statistics for History of the United States (extended)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Former name of Native Americans	Indians	91%
North vs. South, 1861-1865	{American} {Civil} War	86%
From whom?	Great Britain	86%
Highest federal court	{Supreme} Court	86%
Year in which the colonies declared themselves independent	1776	85%
16th president and today a national hero	Abraham Lincoln	85%
Car tycoon from Michigan	Henry Ford	85%
Second U.S. president	John Adams	85%
This canal in Central America opened in 1914	{Panama} Canal	85%
"A date which will live in infamy"	Attack on {Pearl} {Harbor}	84%
Japanese cities struck by atomic bombs	Hiroshima	84%
The U.S. bought this territory from France in 1803	{Louisiana} Territory	84%
Site of the 1692 witch trials	Salem	84%
49th state	Alaska	83%
In 1845, this state joins the union following a war between the US and Mexico	Texas	83%
Famous for his "New Deal", also the only president to be in office for 12 years	Franklin D. Roosevelt	82%
Severe worldwide economic depression, started on Black Tuesday 1929	Great Depression	82%
Home of the U.S. film industry	Hollywood	82%
Japanese cities struck by atomic bombs	Nagasaki	82%
Forced removals of Native American tribes	Trail of {Tears}	82%
He was assassinated in November 1963	John F. Kennedy	81%
"I have a dream"	Martin Luther King Jr.	81%
The first two people on the moon	Neil Armstrong	80%
The 21st Amendment repealed this	Prohibition	80%
The Residence Act made this city the new capital	Washington, D.C.	80%
French region where U.S. troops landed in 1944	Normandy	79%
The only war America ever lost	{Vietnam} War	79%
Gangster who made business during ^	Al Capone	78%
Bloodiest battle and the war's turning point	Battle of Gettysburg	78%
Commander of the southern Army, statues of him were destroyed in 2017	Robert E. Lee	78%
In 1814, this became the national anthem of the U.S.	Star-Spangled Banner	78%
Supreme law	the Constitution	78%
War consisting of proxy wars, 1947-1991	{Cold} War	77%
Common term for Tuesday, 6 June 1944	D-Day	77%
First state to ratify the Constitution	Delaware	77%
New York island, once gateway for over 12 million immigrants	{Ellis} Island	77%
Protest slogan against the colonist's Sugar and Stamp Act	"No taxation {without} {representation}"	77%
Year the ^ landed on the moon	1969	76%
"King of Rock and Roll"	Elvis Presley	76%
This proclamation freed more than 3 million enslaved people	{Emancipation} Proclamation	76%
Brigham Young was a leader of this religious group	Mormons	76%
Political scandal which caused R. Nixon to resign the presidency	Watergate	76%
Party formed in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854	{Republican} Party	75%
First ten amendments to the ^	the Bill of Rights	75%
Buildings attacked during 9/11	World Trade Center	75%
Mission in San Antonio besieged in 1836	Alamo	74%
First Hawaiian and Afro-American president	Barack Obama	74%
Very controversial businessman elected in 2016 as 45th President	Donald Trump	74%
Despite having nothing to do with 9/11, the U.S. invaded this country	Iraq	74%
War of the 50ies between a communist north and a capitalist south	{Korean} War	74%
Explorers who discovered the Pacific coast	Meriwether Lewis	74%
This superpower collapsed in 1991	Soviet Union	74%
It starts with which three words?	We the People	74%
Explorers who discovered the Pacific coast	William Clark	74%
This was discovered near Sutter's Mill in 1848	Gold	73%
He invented Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	73%
Four-letter party active in the middle of the 19th century	Whig	73%
Who founded the city of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania?	William Penn	73%
Revolting southern states which formed an unrecognized country	Confederate States of America	72%
Large poles built by ^	Totem	72%
In 1520, Umi-a-Liloa ruled this island	Hawaii	71%
2005 hurricane which caused severe damages around New Orleans	Hurricane {Katrina}	71%
Wealthiest American of all time, made a fortune in oil	John Rockefeller	71%
In 1973, a crisis began because of a lack of this liquid	Oil	71%
This canal, opened in 1825, connects New York with the Great Lakes	{Erie} Canal	70%
Policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas	{Monroe} Doctrine	70%
Buildings attacked during 9/11	the Pentagon	70%
The first two people on the moon	Buzz Aldrin	68%
Traditional border between northern and southern states	{Mason}-{Dixon} Line	68%
Bush's response to ^	War on {Terror}	68%
It used to have almost 2 million people, now this city only has 670,000 people	Detroit	67%
In this war, the U.S. became a superpower, USS Maine	{Spanish}-{American} War	67%
He lost the 2000 presidential election very close	Al Gore	66%
Music festival in Bethel, New York	Woodstock	66%
His most successful car, colloquially known as Tin Lizzie	Model T	65%
Place where the pilgrims of the Mayflower landed	Plymouth Rock	64%
State which broke away to support the North	West Virginia	63%
^ restored relations with this country, after 54 years	Cuba	61%
Highway system formed in 1956	Interstate	58%
War led by the US to bring down Iraq	{Gulf} War	57%
Capitalist counterpart to the Warsaw Pact	NATO	57%
Quintessential symbol of ^, animal herder	Cowboys	56%
Historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy	Iroquois	55%
The first people coming to America used this landbridge	{Bering} Passage	54%
Popular name for the western part in the 19th century	Wild West	53%
Railroad connecting Omaha with Oakland	{Transcontinental} Railroad	52%
Custer's Last Stand	Battle of the {Little} {Bighorn}	49%
Also known as the Mother Road	Route 66	49%
Group of English Reformed Protestant who fled to the New World	Puritans	48%
"ism" describing the period of anti-communist suspicion	{McCarthy}ism	47%
Group of colonies who declared their independence and formed the U.S.	Thirteen Colonies	46%
Year the Mayflower arrived	1620	45%
Longest-running American sitcom	The Simpsons	45%
Oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement	St. Augustine	43%
Whistleblower who leaked NSA documents	Edward Snowden	42%
War in which the French lost their territories in North America	{Seven} {Years'} War	41%
Statement of principles for peace to end WWI, initiated by W. Wilson	Fourteen Points	29%
Peace solution for Bosnia & Herzegovina	{Dayton} Accords	22%
First European who led expeditions deep into the modern U.S.	Hernando de Soto	14%