| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd U.S. President | Thomas Jefferson | 98%
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| What invention by Eli Whitney allowed cotton to be processed faster? | Cotton Gin | 96%
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| The U.S. purchased this territory from France at the price of 15 cents an acre, doubling the size of the U.S. | Louisiana | 95%
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| What country was a major source of immigrants to the U.S. in the 1840s, partly due to its potato famine? | Ireland | 84%
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| These two men were commissioned to explore the Louisiana Territory | Meriwether Lewis | 84%
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| Author of the Bill of Rights, 4th U.S. President | James Madison | 83%
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| What was the name for the forced migration of thousands of Native Americans westward to Oklahoma? | Trail of Tears | 82%
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| Called the "Moses of her People," she freed hundreds of slaves on the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman | 81%
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| What war is sometimes called the "Second War for American Independence?" | War of 1812 | 79%
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| The siege of this location became a rallying cry in the Texas Revolution: "Remember the _____!" | Alamo | 68%
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| William Clark | 68%
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| General in the War of 1812, 7th President of the U.S. | Andrew Jackson | 65%
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| Americans established a colony for freed slaves on the west coast of Africa that later became the nation of _______. | Liberia | 60%
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| Self-taught to read and right, he was a former slave who became a leading voice in the abolition movement | Frederick Douglass | 59%
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| Waterway that connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River | Erie Canal | 58%
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| Supreme Court decision that established the principle of judicial review | Marbury v. Madison | 54%
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| Founder of Mormonism | Joseph Smith | 45%
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| He led the largest slave revolt on U.S. soil | Nat Turner | 37%
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 34%
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| Women's suffragists and leading coordinators of the Seneca Falls Convention | Susan B. Anthony | 34%
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| What is the capital, named for a U.S. president, of that country? | Monrovia | 32%
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| He led the Mormons westward to settle in Salt Lake City, Utah | Brigham Young | 31%
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| Author of "Moby Dick" | Herman Mellville | 20%
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| 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the date that both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson | July 4, 1826 | 19%
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| Author of "The Scarlet Letter" | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 18%
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