Statistics for U.S. History by Year, 1880-1899

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1886	This statue, a gift from France, is dedicated in New York Harbor	Statue of Liberty	96%
1891	A teacher invents this sport using a ball and a peach basket	Basketball	95%
1884	This author writes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"	Mark Twain	89%
1894	This chocolate company is established in Lancaster, Pennsylvania	Hershey	88%
1885	This city becomes home to the world's first skyscraper	Chicago	86%
1897	This underground mode of transit opens in Boston, the first in North America	Subway	84%
1898	The United States annexes this island nation	Hawaii	83%
1882	The United States practically bans all immigration from this country	China	81%
1892	This president is elected to his second non-consecutive term	Grover Cleveland	81%
1887	This special day is first observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania	{Groundhog} Day	80%
1893	Chicago hosts the Columbian Exposition as a part of this international event	World's Fair	80%
1883	This bridge connecting Manhattan to Long Island is completed	{Brooklyn} Bridge	77%
1899	The U.S. goes to war with this country after they overthrow their Spanish rulers	Philippines	71%
1896	This outlaw robs a bank in Idaho, the Sundance Kid joins him shortly after	Butch Cassidy	67%
1889	John Pemberton incorporates his medicine company in Atlanta, selling this " tonic"	Coca-Cola	67%
1890	A Lakota camp in South Dakota is massacred by U.S. troops in this event	{Wounded} {Knee} Massacre	65%
1881	The gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurs in this Arizona frontier town	Tombstone	61%
1895	The USS Indiana is the first of this kind of ship to be commissioned by the Navy	Battleship	60%
1880	This type of theater entertainment including a variety of acts becomes popular	Vaudeville	60%
1888	400 people die on the East Coast due to this severe weather event	Blizzard	48%