| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9/11; Patriot Acts: DHS, NSA | 71%
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| 1898 | Spanish American War/beginning of imperialism | 43%
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| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education | 29%
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| 1850 | Compromise of 1850 | 29%
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| 1950 | Korean War begins | 29%
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| 1820 | Missouri Compromise | 29%
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| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | 29%
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| 1812 | War of 1812 begins | 29%
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| 1920 | 19th Amendment; Treaty of Versailles not ratified | 14%
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| 1775 | American Revolution begins; Lexington and Concord, Second Continental Congress; Articles of Confederation | 14%
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| 1828 | Andrew Jackson elected, Era of the Common Man | 14%
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| 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion | 14%
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| 1863 | Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation | 14%
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| 1861 | Beginning of Civil War, Battle of Fort Sumter | 14%
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| 1791 | Bill of Rights added to Constitution | 14%
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| 2000 | Bush v. Gore | 14%
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| 1865 | Civil War ends; assassination of Lincoln; 13th Amendment | 14%
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| 1492 | Columbus, Spanish, Columbian Exchange | 14%
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| 1788 | Constitution ratified by 9 states & takes effect | 14%
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| 1824 | "Corrupt Bargain" election, beginning of Democratic Party (pro-Jackson movement) | 14%
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| 1857 | Dred Scott v. Sanford | 14%
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| 1860 | Election of Abraham Lincoln, secession begins | 14%
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| 1844 | Election of Polk; Manifest Destiny | 14%
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| 1980 | Election of Ronald Reagan; conservative resurgence | 14%
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| 1800 | Election of Thomas Jefferson | 14%
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| 1877 | End of Radical Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877; Jim Crow begins | 14%
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| 1945 | End of W.W.II; atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; beginning of Cold War ("iron curtain" descends) | 14%
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| 1975 | Fall of Saigon | 14%
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| 1933 | FDR's New Deal begins | 14%
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| 1607 | First permanent English colony: Jamestown | 14%
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| 1919 | First Red Scare; Red Summer | 14%
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| 1619 | First slaves in Jamestown & House of Burgesses | 14%
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| 1790s | First Two-Party System, Hamilton vs. Jefferson | 14%
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| 1754 | French and Indian War begins (7 Years' War) | 14%
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| 2008 | Great Recession; election of Barack Obama | 14%
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| 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ's Great Society, Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 14%
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| 1862 | Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act, Treasury System, Morrill Act; Antietam | 14%
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| 1854 | Kansas Nebraska Act; Republican Party | 14%
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| 1953 | Korean War ends; armistice and DMZ | 14%
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| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison | 14%
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| 1963 | March on Washington; JFK assassinated | 14%
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| 1846 | Mexican-American War begins | 14%
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| 1968 | MLK and RFK assassinated, Tet Offensive, Chicago Riot, silent majority, race riots, anti-war escalates | 14%
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| 1920s | More urban than rural; culture conflicts | 14%
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| 1949 | NATO; USSR atomic bomb; China=communist | 14%
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| 1787 | Northwest Ordinance & Constitution | 14%
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| 1941 | Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters W.W.II; Depression ends | 14%
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| 1892 | People's Party (Populist Third Party) nationwide | 14%
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| 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson | 14%
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| 1620 | Plymouth founded (Puritans) in New England | 14%
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| 1680 | Pueblo Revolt | 14%
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| 1820s-1830s | Second Two-Party System, Jackson vs. Clay | 14%
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| 1808 | Slave importation ends (Slavery Compromise 1789) | 14%
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| 1957 | Sputnik; beginning of space race | 14%
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| 1765 | Stamp Act, first direct tax, "no taxation without representation" | 14%
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| 1929 | Stock Market Crash; beginning of Great Depression | 14%
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| 1776 | Thomas Paine's Common Sense & the Declaration of Independence | 14%
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| 1815 | Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812; Hartford Resolutions arrive in D.C., end of Federalist Party, beginning of Era of Good Feelings | 14%
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| 1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, end of Mexican-American War; Seneca Falls Convention | 14%
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| 1783 | Treaty of Paris: end of American Revolution & beginning of U.S. under Articles of Confederation | 14%
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| 1763 | Treaty of Paris ends the 7 Years' War, Pontiac's Rebellion, & Proclamation Line | 14%
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| 1917 | U.S. enters W.W.I; Fourteen Points | 14%
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| 1973 | Vietnam War ends with armistice | 14%
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| 1965 | Voting Rights Act; Immigration Act | 14%
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| 1974 | Watergate Scandal | 14%
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| 1890 | Wounded Knee; Closure of the West (frontier "closed"); Sherman Antitrust Act | 14%
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| 1918 | W.W.I ends | 14%
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| 1989 | Berlin Wall falls, end of Cold War with USSR | 0%
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