Statistics for U.S. History by Year, 1820-1839

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1828	This modern political party is formally founded	{Democratic} Party	96%
1838	The United States forcefully moves thousands of Native Americans along this trail to Oklahoma	Trail of {Tears}	95%
1835	This once sovereign nation declares its independence from Mexico	Texas	94%
1833	This Illinois city is established on the shores of Lake Michigan	Chicago	93%
1821	Freed slaves start arriving in this modern day West African country	Liberia	90%
1836	The first wagons arrive in the Willamette Valley after taking this trail	{Oregon} Trail	90%
1826	Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on this celebratory day	July 4	89%
1824	This presidential son wins the presidency after being decided by Congress	John Quincy Adams	88%
1823	The U.S. issues this foreign policy, telling Europe to stay out of the Americas	{Monroe} Doctrine	88%
1825	This canal opens, connecting Albany to the Great Lakes	{Erie} Canal	87%
1830	This religious leader publishes the Book of Mormon	Joseph Smith	83%
1839	Joseph Saxton takes the first one of these in the U.S., depicting a Philadelphia high school	Photograph	81%
1820	This state breaks away from Massachusetts to become its own state	Maine	79%
1829	This former general starts the first of his two terms as president	Andrew Jackson	77%
1832	The Supreme Court rules in favor of the sovereignty of this tribe, only for the ruling to be ignored	Cherokee	69%
1834	This territory that would later become Oklahoma is established	{Indian} Territory	69%
1837	This Midwest state is admitted as the 26th state	Michigan	61%
1827	The Baltimore and Ohio incorporates to become the first of these in America	Railroad	61%
1822	William A. Richardson lands in Yerba Buena, now known as this modern day city	San Francisco	54%
1831	This man leads the deadliest slave rebellion in the United States	Nat Turner	42%