Statistics for Historical Events: U.S.

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Over a period of ten weeks, stocks on the New York Stock Exchange lose 50% of their value, ushering in the Great Depression.	1929	79%
In a surprise military strike, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacks the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, in Honolulu, Hawaii.	1941	71%
Senator John F. Kennedy is elected President in a close race, receiving only 118,000 more votes than Vice President Richard M. Nixon.	1960	68%
The London Company sends out its first expedition to begin colonizing Virginia.	1606	61%
South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union over political and economic tensions between the northern industrialized states and the southern agrarian states.	1860	61%
The New Deal begins to take shape immediately after the inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.	1933	61%
The First Continental Congress meets for the first time, in Philadelphia, in response to escalating tensions between Great Britain and its North American colonists.	1774	54%
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinates President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York.	1901	54%
The California Gold Rush begins when James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, accelerating the California Genocide that began after the Conquest of California during the Mexican-America War.	1848	50%
The French and Indian War (known in Europe as the Seven Years’ War) ends, leaving Great Britain with a huge debt that they try to reduce in part by levying taxes on North American colonists.	1763	46%
128 US citizens die when an Imperial German Navy U-boat sinks the RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland.	1915	46%
To jointly oversee the removal of Japanese forces, the US and the Soviet Union agree to divide the Korean Peninsula into two occupation zones — using the 38th parallel as the dividing line.	1945	46%
In Brown v. Board of Education, the US Supreme Court unanimously rules that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” legally ending racial segregation in public schools and overruling the “separate but equal” principle set forth in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1889.	1954	46%
The first production Ford Model T is built in Detroit, Michigan.	1908	43%
Congress passes the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages, inadvertently contributing to the growth of organized crime.	1918	43%
Severe drought hits the Great Plains, exacerbating the effects of poor soil conservation practices, and causing the Dust Bowl during which 400,000 residents of 19 states lost their homes and livelihoods.	1930	43%
Huguenots (French Protestants) build a colony near what is today Jacksonville, Florida. Most will be massacred by the Spanish, under General Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the following year.	1564	36%
Maryland is the thirteenth and final state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, at which point they become the supreme law of the land.	1781	36%
Vermont becomes the 14th state.	1790	32%
Leland Stanford ceremonially taps the “Golden Spike” at Promontory Summit, Utah, opening the country’s first transcontinental railroad — built with the help of between 15,000 and 20,000 Chinese immigrants.	1869	32%
The Congress of Confederation (the renamed Continental Congress) finalizes the Articles of Confederation as the first framework of government.	1777	29%
Eli Whitney is awarded a patent for the first cotton gin capable of removing seeds from the fibers of the short-staple cotton grown in the US, inadvertently revitalizing the dying institution of slavery.	1794	21%
Thomas Edison patents what will become the first commercially successful light bulb.	1879	21%
President Chester A. Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act, banning the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years.	1892	21%
Explorer Juan Ponce de Léon claims peninsular Florida for Spain — a claim that will incrementally expand to include all of present-day Florida plus portions of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.	1513	18%