| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| War of 1812 begins | 1812 | 91%
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| U.S. enters W.W.I; Fourteen Points | 1917 | 87%
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| Election of Abraham Lincoln, secession begins | 1860 | 85%
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| Beginning of Civil War, Battle of Fort Sumter | 1861 | 85%
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| End of W.W.II; atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; beginning of Cold War ("iron curtain" descends) | 1945 | 85%
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| Columbus, Spanish, Columbian Exchange | 1492 | 83%
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| First permanent English colony: Jamestown | 1607 | 83%
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| Treaty of Paris ends the 7 Years' War, Pontiac's Rebellion, & Proclamation Line | 1763 | 83%
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| American Revolution begins; Lexington & Concord,Second Continental Congress, Articles of Confederation | 1775 | 83%
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| 19th Amendment;Treaty of Versailles not ratified | 1920 | 83%
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| Civil War ends; assassination of Lincoln;13th Amendment | 1865 | 81%
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| W.W.I ends | 1918 | 81%
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| Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters W.W.II; Depression ends | 1941 | 81%
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| Missouri Compromise | 1820 | 80%
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| Compromise of 1850 | 1850 | 80%
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| French and Indian War begins (7 Years' War) | 1754 | 78%
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| Thomas Paine's Common Sense & the Declaration of Independence | 1776 | 78%
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| Treaty of Ghent, end of the War of 1812, Hartford Resolutions arrive in D.C., end of Federalist Party, beginning of Era of Good Feelings | 1815 | 78%
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| Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation | 1863 | 78%
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| End of Radical Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877; Jim Crow begins | 1877 | 78%
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| Korean War begins | 1950 | 78%
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| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | 78%
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| Monroe Doctrine | 1823 | 76%
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| First Red Scare; Red Summer | 1919 | 76%
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| March on Washington;JFK assassinated | 1963 | 76%
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| Election of Thomas Jefferson | 1800 | 74%
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| Korean War ends; armistice and DMZ | 1953 | 74%
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| Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act,Treasury System, Morrill Act; Antietam | 1862 | 72%
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| Spanish American War/beginning of imperialism | 1898 | 72%
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| Stock Market Crash; beginning of Great Depression | 1929 | 72%
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| FDR's New Deal begins | 1933 | 72%
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| Sputnik; beginning of space race | 1957 | 72%
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| MLK and RFK assassinated, Tet Offensive, Chicago riot, silent majority, race riots, anti-war escalates | 1968 | 72%
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| Treaty of Paris:end of American Revolution & beginning of U.S. under Articles of Confederation | 1783 | 70%
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| Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | 70%
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ's Great Society, Civil Rights Act of1964 | 1964 | 70%
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| Voting Rights Act; Immigration Act | 1965 | 70%
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| Stamp Act, first direct tax, "no taxation without representation" | 1765 | 69%
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, end of Mexican-American War; Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 | 69%
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| Kansas-Nebraska Act; Republican Party | 1854 | 69%
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| NATO; USSR atomic bomb; China=communist | 1949 | 69%
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| Vietnam War ends with armistice | 1973 | 69%
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| Watergate Scandal | 1974 | 69%
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| Northwest Ordinance & Constitution | 1787 | 67%
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| Constitution ratified by 9 states & takes effect | 1788 | 67%
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| Mexican-American War begins | 1846 | 67%
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| Bill of Rights added to Constitution | 1791 | 65%
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| Andrew Jackson elected, Era of the Common Man | 1828 | 65%
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| Dred Scott v. Sanford | 1857 | 65%
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| "Corrupt Bargain" election, beginning of Democratic Party (pro-Jackson movement) | 1824 | 63%
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| Election of Polk; Manifest Destiny | 1844 | 63%
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| First slaves in Jamestown & House of Burgesses | 1619 | 61%
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| Fall of Saigon | 1975 | 61%
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| Wounded Knee; Closure of the West (frontier "closed"); Sherman Antitrust Act | 1890 | 59%
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| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 | 59%
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| Plymouth founded (Puritans) in New England | 1620 | 56%
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| People's Party (Populist Third Party) nationwide | 1892 | 56%
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| Slave importation ends (Slavery Compromise 1789) | 1808 | 54%
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| Bacon's Rebellion | 1676 | 39%
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| Pueblo Revolt | 1680 | 28%
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| More urban than rural; culture conflicts | 1920s | 20%
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| First Two-Party System, Hamilton vs. Jefferson | 1790s | 15%
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| Second Two-Party System, Jackson vs. Clay | 1820s-1830s | 6%
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