Statistics for U.S. History by Year, 1860-1879

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1867	The United States buys this territory from Russia at 2 cents an acre	Alaska	95%
1865	This actor assassinates Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre	John Wilkes Booth	95%
1879	This Wizard of Menlo Park perfects the lightbulb	Thomas Edison	94%
1863	A battle near this Pennsylvania town becomes the deadliest in U.S. history	Gettysburg	92%
1860	This state becomes the first to secede from the union	South Carolina	90%
1870	The Standard Oil Company is founded by this business magnate	John D. Rockefeller	89%
1866	This terrorist organization terrorizes the South, particularly targeting freed slaves	Ku Klux Klan	88%
1874	Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent for this invention	Blue Jeans	85%
1871	A fire in this city that kills 300 and destroys 17,500 structures is blamed on a cow	Chicago	85%
1872	This geothermal corner of Wyoming becomes the world's first National Park	Yellowstone	85%
1861	The Confederates attack this fort in Charleston Harbor	Fort {Sumter}	83%
1876	This colonel is defeated by Native Americans at the Battle of Little Bighorn	George Armstrong Custer	81%
1869	The golden spike in Utah marks the completion of this railroad	{Transcontinental} Railroad	81%
1868	This president becomes the first to be impeached by the House	Andrew Johnson	78%
1864	This general's march to the sea destroys much of Georgia	William T. Sherman	78%
1875	The Page Act was the first to limit immigration from this country	China	76%
1862	This man is inaugurated as president of the Confederacy	Jefferson Davis	75%
1878	This teenage outlaw and gunfighter takes part in the Lincoln County War	Billy the Kid	74%
1873	This outlaw and his gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the West	Jesse James	58%
1877	This Sioux chief and Little Bighorn combatant is killed in Nebraska	Crazy Horse	55%