Cities in History-US - Statistics

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Hint	Founded	City	% Correct
B) Prominent city and site of thefamous Tea Party revolt during the Revolution	1630	Boston	100%
A) Originally a Dutch trading post, it is now the capital of New York	1614	Albany	92%
G) Town close to the site where one of the most brutal battles of the Civil War took place	1786	Gettysburg	92%
P) The Declaration of Independence was signedhere in 1776	1682	Philadelphia	92%
R) Served as capital of the Confederate states	1737	Richmond	92%
W) Now the national capital, it was named forthe first US president	1790	Washington DC	92%
C) The largest city in the South during themid 1800s	1670	Charleston	85%
J) Site of the first permanent English colony in theUS	1607	Jamestown	85%
M) Founded by Andrew Jackson and others, itbecame a prominent blues town	1826	Memphis	85%
Q) Mass town home of the 2nd and 6th presidents	1792	Quincy	85%
D) Cattle drives and outlaws made this frontiertown a notorious place	1872	Dodge City	77%
E) PA port city where Oliver Hazard Perry constructed a naval fleet during the War of 1812	1795	Erie	77%
N) One of the largest cities in 1850, it served as a key hub for the Mississippi river	1718	New Orleans	77%
S) The oldest European settlement in America	1565	St Augustine	77%
V) Mississippi town where a major Naval battleoccurred in late 1862-1863	1811	Vicksburg	77%
Y) New York suburb founded in 1646 by Dutchsettlers, it was the first incorporated city in Westchester Co	1646, c 1872	Yonkers	69%
O) Prairie city once known as the Gateway to theWest for its role in the transcontinental railroad	1854	Omaha	62%
T) Settled by Quakers, it was the site of a majorbattle of the Revolution after Washington crossed the Delaware	1679	Trenton	54%
U) Grew in popularity following the Erie Canalcompletion, it was built upon Fort Schuyler	1798	Utica	46%
L) Served as one of the largest textile towns in theUS, founded by Boston merchants	1821	Lowell	38%
X) The only incorporated city in the US beginning with X,founded by pioneer John Paul	1803	Xenia	38%
Z) Michigan city settled by Dutch farmers who named itafter the province in the Netherlands	1849	Zeeland	31%
F) Mass city known for its textile industry andthe infamous Lizzie Borden murders	1803	Fall River	15%
H) Samuel Colt invented the revolver in thiscity in 1836, and later moved the Colt factory there	1636	Hartford	8%
I) Became known as the starting point for theOregon, Santa Fe, and California trails	1827	Independence	8%
K) Served as the first capital of NY state in 1777and was a key Dutch hub	1652	Kingston	8%

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