| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| First settlement in the United States in 1607 | Jamestown | 89%
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| Famous purchase in 1803 | {Louisiana} Purchase | 87%
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| First state | Delaware | 79%
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| Country which sold the previous | France | 79%
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| War during James Madison's presidency | War of 1812 | 77%
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| William Clark | 77%
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| First ten amendments to the Constitution | Bill of Rights | 75%
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| Explorers of the territory | Meriwether Lewis | 75%
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| Year that war ended | 1815 | 74%
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| Author of "Common Sense" | Thomas Paine | 74%
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| Rider who warned that "the British are coming" | Paul Revere | 72%
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| First secretary of the Treasury | Alexander Hamilton | 68%
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| First two battles of the war | Battle of Lexington | 63%
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| Battle of Concord | 62%
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| Southern colony with a slave majority | South Carolina | 60%
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| First two political parties | Federalist | 59%
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| Lawyer who wrote the National Anthem | Francis Scott Key | 57%
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| Final battle of the Revolutionary War | Battle of Yorktown | 56%
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| Treaty ending the war | Treaty of Paris | 51%
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| Name of his poem | Star Spangled Banner | 50%
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| Democratic-Republican | 44%
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| Wife of James Madison who saved items from the White House | Dolley Madison | 40%
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| Leader of the American forces at that battle | Andrew Jackson | 38%
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| First chief justice of the Supreme Court | John Jay | 37%
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| Last battle of the war | Battle of New Orleans | 29%
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| President of the Continental Congress | John Hancock | 29%
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| Fort during the battle of Baltimore | Fort {McHenry} | 26%
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| First line of the anthem | {O} {say} {can} {you} {see}, {by} {the} {dawn's} {early} {light} | 24%
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| Speaker of the House during the war | Henry Clay | 20%
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| Treaty ending the war | Treaty of Ghent | 18%
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| Famous quote by Oliver Hazard Perry | We have met the {enemy} and they are {ours} | 15%
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| Pirate who fought with the American forces at the battle | Jean Lafitte | 12%
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| Peninsula of rich Virginian farming elite | Tidewater Peninsula | 3%
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