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40 People in American History that Everyone Should Know - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 2,257 times
1,857 since last reset
- The average score is 26 of 40
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| First President | George Washington | 100%
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| Ended Slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation | Abraham Lincoln | 95%
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| She resisted bus segregation | Rosa Parks | 94%
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| Author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson | 92%
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| First Man on the Moon | Neil Armstrong | 91%
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| Started the Civil Rights Movement | Martin Luther King Jr. | 89%
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| The King of Rock and Roll | Elvis Presley | 88%
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| Led the United States through most of World War II | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 88%
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| Trumpeter from New Orleans who was a major influence on Jazz | Louis Armstrong | 88%
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| Founder of Microsoft | Bill Gates | 84%
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| Father of the Theory of Relativity | Albert Einstein | 83%
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| Created the first Airplane | Orville Wright | 83%
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| Wilbur Wright | 82%
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| Probably the most famous American Architect in History | Frank Lloyd Wright | 81%
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| Created many of the country's most famous animated films | Walt Disney | 79%
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| Inventor of the Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | 78%
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| Blond Actress famous for films such as "Some Like it Hot" | Marilyn Monroe | 78%
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| Founded the Assembly Line | Henry Ford | 73%
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| Wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" | Mark Twain | 73%
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| First Secretary of the Treasury | Alexander Hamilton | 70%
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| Went on a expedition to find a route from the Mississippi to the Pacific | Meriwether Lewis | 68%
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| General-in-Chief of the Confederate Army | Robert E. Lee | 68%
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| William Clark | 67%
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| "Father of the Atomic Bomb" | Robert Oppenheimer | 65%
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| Advisor of the Second President | Abigail Adams | 60%
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| First Postmaster General | Benjamin Franklin | 53%
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| Author of "The Old Man and the Sea" | Ernest Hemingway | 52%
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| Inventor of the Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney | 50%
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| Famously Died at the Battle of Little Big Horn | General Custer | 49%
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| Built a motor based on AC current | Nikola Tesla | 49%
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| Abolitionist who escaped from slavery and was nominated for Vice President | Frederick Douglass | 47%
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| Fought for Women's Rights to Vote | Susan B. Anthony | 46%
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| Founder of Salt Lake City | Bringham Young | 45%
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| Resisted the U.S Takeover of Sioux Lands | Sitting Bull | 36%
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| Inventor of the Telegraph | Samuel Morse | 35%
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| Started the Mexican-American War | James Polk | 33%
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| Created one of the first Polio Vaccines | Jonas Salk | 31%
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| Negotiated the purchase of Alaska | William Seward | 22%
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| Laid the Foundations for U.S Constitutional Law | John Marshall | 17%
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| Founder of Christian Science | Mary Baker Eddy | 10%
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