| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| …where, in the late 1910s and early 1920s, African American musicians developed a genre of music called: | Jazz | 98%
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| An annual Mardi Gras parade has taken place since 1857 in: | New Orleans | 95%
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| …whose port saw the first full battle of the: | American Civil War | 92%
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| …which provided the music for the most popular dance of the 1920s, which was called the: | Charleston | 87%
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| …who is generally considered a: | Founding Father | 87%
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| …who made a perilous crossing of the: | Delaware River | 86%
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| …of which, the most important one is probably: | George Washington | 86%
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| …when the Chief Justice swore in President: | Abraham Lincoln | 85%
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| …who was assassinated in the year: | 1865 | 82%
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| …when the Americans acquired a secret diplomatic communication called the: | Zimmerman Telegram | 82%
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| …when the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces was: | Dwight Eisenhower | 78%
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| …which was enforced by state and local governments via the: | Jim Crow Laws | 78%
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| …which was the destination of a march for civil rights led by: | Martin Luther King Jr. | 78%
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| …who had to decide whether to expand in the Northwest instead of the South during the: | Oregon Territory Dispute | 78%
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| …when the United States officially took over The: | Republic of Texas | 78%
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| …when an assassin killed President: | John F. Kennedy | 77%
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| …which occurred in the year: | 1944 | 75%
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| …who joined the Americans and Canadians in launching an attack on the: | Beaches of Normandy | 75%
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| …which suffered the first major outbreak of the second wave of: | Spanish Flu | 75%
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| …whose most famous work might be: | Oh! Susanna | 74%
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| …who became President of the United States in the year: | 1953 | 72%
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| …when Confederate leaders were forced to flee from the Confederate capital of: | Richmond | 72%
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| …which started in the year: | 1861 | 71%
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| …who wrote a Letter from a Birmingham Jail, which urged nonviolent protest, in the year: | 1963 | 70%
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| …where, in exchange for a military alliance, Germany offered American territory to: | Mexico | 70%
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| …whose capital city is: | Montgomery | 70%
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| …when the Little Rock Nine attended Little Rock Central High School, becoming a major step in the bid to end: | Segregation | 70%
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| …who President Wilson did not declare war on until: | 1917 | 68%
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| …who was born in a suburb on the outskirts of: | Boston | 68%
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| …which was annexed under the signature of President: | James Polk | 68%
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| …where there was stationed over 1000 Hessians, who were mercenaries from: | Germany | 67%
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| …where American revolutionaries convened in St. John’s Church to discuss raising an army in the year: | 1775 | 66%
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| …where some Americans, with slogans like “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”, pushed for war with: | Britain | 66%
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| …who the United States invaded in the year: | 1846 | 65%
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| …where the banjo-kneed narrator comes from: | Alabama | 65%
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| …which makes reference to a character that was popular in travelling: | Minstrel Shows | 65%
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| …when, on January 19, a record-setting 71% of American TVs tuned in to watch: | I Love Lucy | 62%
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| …for which, the most notable songwriter was: | Stephen Foster | 62%
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| …which spread rapidly in Philadelphia because, during the pandemic, it held the massive Philadelphia Liberty Loans: | Parade | 58%
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| …when the famous line “Give me liberty, or give me death!” was exclaimed by: | Patrick Henry | 57%
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| …which ended in: | 1957 | 56%
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| …which separated the Revolutionary Army from the town of: | Trenton | 53%
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