| Event | Year(s) | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus' first voyage | 1492 | 88%
|
| March on Washington; JFK assassinated | 1963 | 59%
|
| Declaration of Independence | 1776 | 47%
|
| D-Day | 1944 | 47%
|
| Atomic bomb dropped | 1945 | 47%
|
| Reagan elected | 1980 | 47%
|
| Cold War ends | 1989 | 47%
|
| 9/11 Attacks | 2001 | 47%
|
| Great Recession; Obama elected | 2008 | 47%
|
| Louisiana Purchase | 1803 | 41%
|
| U.S. enters WWI | 1917 | 41%
|
| Stock market crash | 1929 | 41%
|
| WWII starts in Europe | 1939 | 41%
|
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | 1941 | 41%
|
| Civil Rights Act | 1964 | 41%
|
| Moon landing | 1969 | 41%
|
| Iranian hostage crisis | 1979 | 41%
|
| Boston Massacre | 1770 | 35%
|
| Treaty of Paris | 1783 | 35%
|
| Jefferson's election | 1800 | 35%
|
| Truman Doctrine | 1947 | 35%
|
| McCarthyism | {1950}s | 35%
|
| Sputnik | 1957 | 35%
|
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 | 35%
|
| Bush v. Gore | 2000 | 35%
|
| Jamestown founded | 1607 | 29%
|
| Proclamation of ____ | 1763 | 29%
|
| Stamp Act | 1765 | 29%
|
| Boston Tea Party | 1773 | 29%
|
| Women's Suffrage (19th Amendment) | 1920 | 29%
|
| Red Scare; Prohibition | {1920}s | 29%
|
| Tet Offensive | 1968 | 29%
|
| Watergate break-in | 1972 | 29%
|
| Persian Gulf War | 1991 | 29%
|
| Constitutional Convention | 1787 | 24%
|
| XYZ Affair; Alien & Sedition Acts | 1798 | 24%
|
| War of ____ | {1812} - {1815} | 24%
|
| Lincoln's election | 1860 | 24%
|
| American Civil War | {1861} - {1865} | 24%
|
| Purchase of Alaska | 1867 | 24%
|
| Brown v. Board of Ed. | 1954 | 24%
|
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | 1955 | 24%
|
| Affordable Care Act | 2011 | 24%
|
| Bacon's Rebellion | 1676 | 18%
|
| Revolutionary War | {1775} - {1783} | 18%
|
| Washington's election | 1788 | 18%
|
| Jackson's election | 1828 | 18%
|
| Nat Turner's Rebellion; Nullification Crisis | 1832 | 18%
|
| Homestead Act | 1862 | 18%
|
| Compromise of ____; Reconstruction ends | 1877 | 18%
|
| Wright brothers' plane | 1903 | 18%
|
| Korean War | {1950} - {1953} | 18%
|
| Mayflower Compact | 1620 | 12%
|
| Pueblo Revolt | 1680 | 12%
|
| Salem Witch Trials | 1692 | 12%
|
| Shay's Rebellion | 1786 | 12%
|
| Bill of Rights | 1791 | 12%
|
| Monroe Doctrine | 1823 | 12%
|
| Indian Removal Act | 1830 | 12%
|
| Battle of the Alamo | 1836 | 12%
|
| Annexation of Texas | 1845 | 12%
|
| Mexican-American War | {1845} - {1848} | 12%
|
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 | 12%
|
| Bleeding Kansas & Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 | 12%
|
| Wounded Knee; Sherman Antitrust Act | 1890 | 12%
|
| Populism/Segregation/Imperialism | {1890}s | 12%
|
| Annexation of Hawai'i; Spanish-American War | 1898 | 12%
|
| Cold War | {1945} - {1991} | 12%
|
| Roe v. Wade | 1973 | 12%
|
| Contract with America | 1994 | 12%
|
| Oklahoma City bombing | 1995 | 12%
|
| Spanish Domination | {1492} - {1588} | 6%
|
| King Philip's War | 1675 | 6%
|
| Seven Years' War | {1754} - {1763} | 6%
|
| Market Revolution | {1800} - {1850} | 6%
|
| Era of Good Feelings | {1816} - {1824} | 6%
|
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 | 6%
|
| Sectionalism | {1820}s | 6%
|
| Manifest Destiny | {1830} - {1850} | 6%
|
| Trail of Tears | {1838} - {1839} | 6%
|
| Fugitive Slave Law | 1850 | 6%
|
| Uncle Tom's Cabin published | 1852 | 6%
|
| Dred Scott Case | 1857 | 6%
|
| Gilded Age | {1870} - {1900} | 6%
|
| Little Bighorn | 1876 | 6%
|
| Haymarket Square Riot | 1886 | 6%
|
| Dawes Act | 1887 | 6%
|
| Pullman Strike | 1894 | 6%
|
| "Cross of Gold" speech | 1896 | 6%
|
| Bonus Army March | 1932 | 6%
|
| World's Columbian Exposition | 1893 | 0%
|
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 | 0%
|
| Progressive Era | {1900} - {1920} | 0%
|