Event | President | % Correct |
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The September 11 attacks | George W. Bush | 98%
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor | Franklin Roosevelt | 93%
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The Cuban Missile Crisis | John F. Kennedy | 91%
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The Apollo 11 moon landing | Richard Nixon | 86%
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Nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Harry Truman | 83%
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The Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson | 80%
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The Civil Rights Act outlaws racial, gender, and religious discrimination | Lyndon B. Johnson | 78%
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The U.S. enters WWI (after this President promised to stay out of it) | Woodrow Wilson | 78%
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The Great Depression begins | Herbert Hoover | 76%
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Washington D.C. becomes capital of the United States | John Adams | 76%
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Iran takes hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran | Jimmy Carter | 75%
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The U.S. starts construction on the Panama Canal | Theodore Roosevelt | 69%
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The Battle of Fort Sumter | Abraham Lincoln | 64%
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The signing of the Indian Removal Act marks the start of the "Trail of Tears" | Andrew Jackson | 64%
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British troops capture and burn Washington D.C. | James Madison | 63%
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Construction begins on the Interstate Highway System | Dwight Eisenhower | 58%
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Americans revolt over taxes in the "Whiskey Rebellion" | George Washington | 42%
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The Spanish-American War | William McKinley | 41%
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The Teapot Dome scandal | Warren Harding | 39%
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The "Golden Spike" completes the Transcontinental Railroad | Ulysses S. Grant | 37%
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