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U.S. History by Year, 1860-1879 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 319 times
- The average score is 16 of 20
Answer Stats
| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1867 | The United States buys this territory from Russia at 2 cents an acre | Alaska | 94%
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| 1879 | This Wizard of Menlo Park perfects the lightbulb | Thomas Edison | 93%
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| 1863 | A battle near this Pennsylvania town becomes the deadliest in U.S. history | Gettysburg | 90%
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| 1865 | This actor assassinates Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre | John Wilkes Booth | 90%
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| 1866 | This terrorist organization terrorizes the South, particularly targeting freed slaves | Ku Klux Klan | 89%
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| 1860 | This state becomes the first to secede from the union | South Carolina | 86%
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| 1870 | The Standard Oil Company is founded by this business magnate | John D. Rockefeller | 84%
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| 1872 | This geothermal corner of Wyoming becomes the world's first National Park | Yellowstone | 83%
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| 1871 | A fire in this city that kills 300 and destroys 17,500 structures is blamed on a cow | Chicago | 82%
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| 1868 | This president becomes the first to be impeached by the House | Andrew Johnson | 79%
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| 1861 | The Confederates attack this fort in Charleston Harbor | Fort {Sumter} | 78%
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| 1874 | Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent for this invention | Blue Jeans | 77%
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| 1862 | This man is inaugurated as president of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis | 74%
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| 1864 | This general's march to the sea destroys much of Georgia | William T. Sherman | 74%
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| 1869 | The golden spike in Utah marks the completion of this railroad | {Transcontinental} Railroad | 72%
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| 1875 | The Page Act was the first to limit immigration from this country | China | 69%
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| 1876 | This colonel is defeated by Native Americans at the Battle of Little Bighorn | George Armstrong Custer | 69%
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| 1878 | This teenage outlaw and gunfighter takes part in the Lincoln County War | Billy the Kid | 68%
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| 1873 | This outlaw and his gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the West | Jesse James | 52%
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| 1877 | This Sioux chief and Little Bighorn combatant is killed in Nebraska | Crazy Horse | 49%
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