Statistics for U.S. History by Decade - Multiple Choice

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Question	Answer	% Correct
The majority of the U.S. population is urban for the first time	1920	47%
The 25th state is admitted	1830's	39%
The last law making property ownership a requirement for voting is repealed	1850's	38%
The last of the original 13 colonies is founded	1730's	37%
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published	1880's	35%
The first contested U.S. presidential election	1790's	33%
Plessy v. Ferguson establishes the legality of "separate but equal" racial segregation	1890's	33%
First permanent European settlement on the U.S. mainland	1560's	32%
ARPANET (an important precursor to the modern Internet) is established	1960's	32%
The last of the "lower 48" states is admitted	1910's	31%
New Amsterdam becomes New York	1660's	29%
Walmart is founded	1960's	29%
The first U.S. Nobel Prize winner	1900's	27%
The first transcontinental railroad is completed	1860's	25%
The last significant (at least 100 square kilometers) U.S. permanent territorial acquisition	1910's	19%
U.S. population surpasses 100,000,000 for the first time	1920	16%
The Mason-Dixon line is drawn	1760's	14%
First Europeans visit the U.S.	1500's	13%
The first Treaty of Paris involving the U.S. is signed	1760's	11%
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" (aka 'Twas the Night Before Christmas) is first published	1820's	8%