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The last law making property ownership a requirement for voting is repealed | 1850's | 38%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