| Questions | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| A) 16th president of the US, bornin a log cabin in rural Kentucky in 1809 | Abraham Lincoln | 93%
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| G) Considered the bloodiest battle of the CivilWar | Gettysburg | 88%
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| E) Baltimore based writer famous for his poem,The Raven in the 1840s | Edgar Allen Poe | 85%
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| U) First name of General Grant | Ulysses | 82%
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| K) Became the 34th state admitted to the Union in 1861 | Kansas | 79%
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| D) Formerly Mt McKinley, the highest peakin North America | Denali | 73%
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| C) This pilot was the first to fly nonstop fromNY to Paris in May 1927 | Charles Lindbergh | 72%
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| O) One of the Wright brothers credited withthe first flight in Kitty Hawk in 1903 | Orville | 72%
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| S) This national song was written by Francis Scott Key as he watched the bombing of Baltimore Harbor | Star Spangled Banner | 67%
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| N) FDR socioeconomic program to revitalize theeconomy during the Depression | New Deal | 65%
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| M) This doctrine stated that the US would notallow European powers to colonize in the West | Monroe Doctrine | 55%
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| Z) Ice cleaning machine invented in 1949 bya mechanic named Frank | Zamboni | 53%
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| Y) crucial battle that ended in Gen. Cornwallis'surrender to Washington | Yorktown | 51%
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| J) This man, along with his wife Ethel, wereconvicted of spying and selling US military secrets to the Soviets after WW2 | Julius Rosenburg | 47%
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| W) General whos army burned Atlanta on hisMarch to the Sea sack of Savannah | William T Sherman | 40%
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| V) crucial campaign and Union victory foughtin Western Mississippi in 1863 | Vicksburg | 38%
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| B) First full scale battle of the Civil War innorthern Virginia, July 1861 | Bull Run | 33%
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| P) "charge" assault of Union forces during thebattle of Gettysburg | Picketts charge | 25%
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| T) Act signed in 1933 by FDR to improveeconomic development in the Tennessee area | Tennessee Valley Authority | 25%
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| I) Type of naval warships using iron as a way to strengthen defense during the civil war | Ironclads | 22%
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| Q) Undeclared warfare fought between the USand France in 1798-1800 | Quasi French war | 21%
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| X) Feud of political tension that led to the Quasi French War | XYZ affair | 20%
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| H) British born general who served in the Contiental Army during the Revolutionary war | Horatio Gates | 9%
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| L) this antislavery political party was founded in 1839 | Liberty party | 6%
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| F) Wyoming outpost crucial in the migrationwestward for supplies and tracking. Named for a famous fur trapper | Fort Bridger | 5%
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| R) A "passion for arms" ethusiasm of Americansduring the Revolutionary war | rage militaire | 1%
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