Statistics for Early History of the United States

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Year in which Columbus is credited with discovering America	1492	96%
Name of the first permanent English settlement	Jamestown	89%
Present-day state in which the above landed	Florida	79%
New Amsterdam, Capital of New Netherland, was changed to this name when the English took control	New York	79%
Ship on which English Separatists arrived in Massachusetts in 1620	The Mayflower	75%
This doomed English settlement was founded in 1585 off the coast of North Carolina	The Lost Colony of Roanoke	68%
This country explored Alaska with the Second Kamchatka Expedition in the 1730s	Russia	62%
Important Native American confederacy consisting of Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida tribes	Iroquois	55%
Name of the first permanent European settlement, settled in 1565	St. Augustine	51%
Debtors and “the worthy poor” of England were brought to this future state in the 1730s	Georgia	47%
This Spanish explorer arrived in 1513 on a fleet of ships consisting of the “Santiago”, the “San Cristobal”, and the “Santa Maria de la Consolacion”	Ponce de Leon	40%
This US state was first a kingdom, then a republic, then a territory, but it was never a colony	Hawaii	34%
First documented European to cross the Mississippi River, he died on its banks in 1542	Hernando DeSoto	32%
Date of the first permanent English settlement	1607	30%
This northern city was founded in 1701 by French explorers	Detroit	26%
This Florentine explorer was serving the King of France when he explored the east coast. A New York City bridge is named for him	Giovanni da Verrazzano	23%
In 1579 this explorer was believed by many to have come ashore in northern California and named the land New Albion, claiming it from sea to sea for England	Sir Francis Drake	23%
Year the first documented Africans arrived on a captured slave ship	1619	21%
This Spanish explorer came north from Mexico and traveled as far as Kansas looking for seven cities of gold	Francisco Vazquez de Coronado	19%
French Canadian explorer who accompanied the above	Louis Jolliet	19%
French Jesuit missionary who explored the region of the northern Mississippi River in the 1600s	Father Jacques Marquette	17%
Area in Colorado settled by 400 AD which includes the Cliff Palace, largest cliff dwelling in North America	Mesa Verde	17%
This oldest capital city in the US was founded between 1607-1610	Santa Fe	15%
Native American confederacy in the region of the above settlement	Powhatan	13%
This colony, which brought the log cabin and Lutheranism to America, was captured by the Dutch in 1655 and merged into New Netherland	New Sweden	8%
Year of the above man’s hearing which some credit with formalizing slavery in the US	1640	6%
First manufactured product to be exported to Europe from the first permanent settlement	glassware	2%
He is said to have been the first official slave in the colonies	John Punch	2%

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