Statistics for Every Decade in the USA

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Decade	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1870's	What became the first national park in the world?	Yellowstone	88%
1910's	What country is split in half by the United States by the completion of a new canal?	Panama	85%
1920's	What liquid was temporarily banned in the United States?	Alcohol	81%
1900's	What new country gained independence from the United States after the Spanish-American War?	Cuba	81%
1800's	What city was Thomas Jefferson looking to buy when he ended up buying all of Louisiana?	New Orleans	79%
1830's	The US recognizes the independence of what new country to it's south?	Texas	79%
1890's	What large island was captured by the United States in the Spanish-American War and is still held to this day?	Puerto Rico / Guam (Both are acceptable)	77%
2010's	Who became the first U.S. president to step foot inside North Korea?	Donald Trump	75%
1950's	What president was the most recent president to let a state enter the union?	Dwight D. Eisenhower	75%
1970's	What president was without a vice president for 3 months, and then chose Nelson Rockefeller to become his vice president for just over 2 years?	Gerald Ford	73%
2000's	What was the most damaging hurricane in U.S. history, causing 108 billion in damages? (For reference, that is about the gdp of Ecuador.)	Hurricane Katrina	71%
1940's	What state was the first nuclear bomb detonated in?	New Mexico	71%
1770's	What state was the battle of Yorktown in?	Virginia	69%
1810's	Who was president during the war of 1812?	James Madison	65%
1980's	What tiny insignificant Caribbean country was invaded by the U.S. to stop a communist coup?	Grenada	63%
1850's	What major political party collapsed after electing 4 of its own as president?	Whig	63%
1930's	What state did the Hindenburg explode over?	New Jersey	60%
1820's	What state, other than Missouri, was added in the Missouri Compromise (which balanced power between slave and free state) was added in 1820	Maine	54%
1790's	What was the first state that was not part of the 13 colonies?	Vermont	54%
1990's	What organisation was set up on January 1, 1994, to help with trade between the United States, Canada, and Mexico?	NAFTA	50%
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1880's	Who was assassinated in St Joseph Missouri in 1882?	Jesse James	29%
1780's	What city was the treaty that ended the revolutionary war signed in?	Paris	29%
1840's	Who sued for his freedom and set in motion events that would lead to the civil war? (The case was heard in 1857, but he sued in the 1840's in a state court)	Dred Scott	27%
1860's	Who was the first vice president of Abraham Lincoln?	Hannibal Hamlin	15%
1960's	What important person was riding in the presidential motorcade along with Kennedy and his wife?	Texas Governor	6%