1800s Quiz A-Z - Statistics

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Hint	Years	Answer	% Correct
A) This tall president is born in alog cabin in rural Kentucky	1809-1865	Abraham Lincoln	100%
C) Brutal conflict between the Union and Confederate states over the issue of slavery	1861-65	Civil War	90%
G) Period of mass migration to California in searchof the precious metal discovered there	1849	Gold Rush	86%
I) The British Raj ruled this subcontinent to takedirect control	1858	India	86%
L) Thomas Jefferson bought this land from France,doubling the size of the US	1803	Louisiana	86%
N) This French general met his final defeat at Waterloo	1815	Napoleon Bonaparte	86%
U) Civil War winning general and later president	1822-1885	Ulysses Grant	83%
V) This British monarch becomes queen and reigns for 63 years	1837-1901	Victoria	83%
F) Hunger pandemic in Ireland causing widespreadcrop failure	1848	Famine	76%
X) This type of wave was discovered by Germanphysicist Wilhelm Rontgen	1895	X Ray	76%
K) A massive volcanic eruption on this Indonesianislands is one of the largest in history	1883	Krakatoa	72%
Y) This California national park was established	1890	Yosemite	72%
Z) Shaka rose to power in this southern African kingdom	1816	Zulu	72%
T) Patented the first practical incandescent lightbulb andphonograph	1847-1931	Thomas Edison	69%
W) Conflict between the US and Britain, years after tensions fromthe Revolutionary War	1812-1815	War of 1812	69%
J) This famous actor assassinates president Lincolnin Fords Theater as the War came to an end	1865	John Wilkes Booth	66%
E) Lincoln delivered this crucial order, declaringall slaves in Confederate states to be free	1863	Emancipation Proclamation	55%
S) Shoshone native who aided Lewis and Clark in theirexpedition to the Pacific	1805-06	Sacagawea	55%
R) Era of rebuilding the Southern states after the Civil War	1865-1877	Reconstruction	52%
O) Wyatt Earp and his men face off against the Clanton gang in this iconic showdown in Tombstone, AZ	1881	OK Corral	41%
P) Horseback mail service between the Atlantic andPacific states that revolutionized deliveries	1860	Pony Express	41%
D) This man famously sued for freedom ina "decision" by the Supreme Court that slaves were not citizens	1857	Dred Scott	38%
M) Period of mass migration westward across the US,believing the people must explore the rest of the country	1845>	Manifest Destiny	38%
H) Abolitionist John Brown raided this West Virginia settlement to initiate a slave revolt	1859	Harpers Ferry	31%
B) Period of violence motivated bypolitical instability over pro vs anti slavery activists in the Kansas territory	1854-61	Bleeding Kansas	24%
Q) Naval conflict between the US and France that endedwith the Convention of 1800	1798-1800	Quasi War	21%

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