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Infamous Americans That Impacted History - Statistics
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Answer Stats
| Impact | Name | % Correct |
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| U.S. President impeached for lying under oath about sexual allegations | Bill Clinton | 93%
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| U.S. President who controversially decided to invade Iraq | George W. Bush | 93%
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| Crime boss that ran a multi-million dollar crime operation during the Prohibition era | Al Capone | 91%
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| U.S. President who did little to prevent the Great Depression and expected it to solve itself | Herbert Hoover | 89%
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| Assassinated Abraham Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth | 89%
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| U.S. President most known for corruption and Watergate scandal | Richard Nixon | 89%
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| Assassinated John F. Kennedy | Lee Harvey Oswald | 84%
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| Killed Alexander Hamilton; fled to Europe after being charged with treason | Aaron Burr | 81%
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| U.S. President impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act | Andrew Johnson | 77%
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| Fomer senator exacerbated the Red Scare, claiming several government officials were working for the Soviet Union without evidence | Joseph McCarthy | 75%
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| Revolutionary War hero who later betrayed the U.S. | Benedict Arnold | 70%
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| Former president of the Confederate States; poor political leader | Jefferson Davis | 70%
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| U.S. President who did nothing to prevent the nation from falling into the Civil War | James Buchanan | 60%
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| Founder and leader of the People's Temple cult, initiating mass suicide/murder | Jim Jones | 60%
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| Domestic terrorist responsible for 1995 Oklahoma City bombing killing 168 and injuring 680 | Timothy McVeigh | 54%
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| Great Depression era gangster having robbed 24 banks and escaped jail twice | John Dillinger | 53%
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| U.S. President known for corruption in Teapot Dome scandal | Warren G. Harding | 53%
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| U.S. President who ended the Reconstruction era by allowing the South to return to harsh discrimination after promising to protect the rights of Black Americans | Rutherford B. Hayes | 51%
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| Convicted Soviet spy sentenced to death in 1951 | Julius Rosenberg | 47%
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| Former chairman of the NASDAQ stock market; confessed operator of the largest Ponzi scheme in world history and the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. | Bernie Madoff | 40%
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| Assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | James Earl Ray | 40%
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| Corrupt politician most notable as the "boss" of Tammany Hall and political machines | William M. Tweed | 37%
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| Confederate army general who formed the Ku Klux Klan after losing the Civil War | Nathan Bedford Forrest | 26%
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| Chief Justice who decided Dred Scott and Ex Parte Merryman | Roger B. Taney | 21%
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| Soviet spy convicted of perjury in 1950, served only 44 months in prison | Alger Hiss | 19%
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| Assassinated James A. Garfield | Charles J. Guiteau | 19%
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| U.S. President who crashed a booming economy and worsened it with ineffective policies | Martin Van Buren | 19%
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| Mobster crimelord dubbed "the father of organized crime," initiated the first Commission | Charles "Lucky" Luciano | 18%
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| Anti-semetic who claims to be the true Jesus Christ; leader of Nation of Islam | Louis Farrakhan | 16%
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| CIA officer turned KGB double agent convicted of espionage in 1994 sentenced to life in prison | Aldritch Ames | 14%
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| Assassinated William McKinley | Leon Czolgosz | 12%
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| U.S. President who signed the Fugitive Slave Act, setting the stage for black codes | Millard Fillmore | 9%
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| Chief Justice whose decision in United States v. Cruikshank effectively disabled the federal government from protecting the freed blacks from white southern terrorists during Reconstruction | Morrison Waite | 2%
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