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Embarrassing Chapters in US History, Part 2 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 3,081 times
- The average score is 13 of 21
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The nation goes to war with this country, ostensibly over "WMDs" which are never found. | Iraq | 94%
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| From 1692 to 1693 20 people are executed for witchcraft in this Massachusetts town. | Salem | 91%
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| This war kills or maims millions, including 200,000 Americans, and ultimately ends in failure. | Vietnam | 91%
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| The first atomic bomb deployed against a civilian population is dropped on this Japanese city, obliterating it completely and inflicting hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties. | Hiroshima | 89%
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| Nathan Bedford Forrest and others form this organization in 1865 to terrorize "blacks" and promote "white" supremacy. | Ku Klux Klan | 89%
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| Three days later, a second atomic bomb is dropped on this city. | Nagasaki | 89%
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| This war leaves half a million Americans dead, having been initiated by the secession of Southern states for perhaps the worst of all possible reasons. | Civil War | 87%
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| Over 100,000 people with ancestors from this country were sent to internment camps during WW2. | Japan | 83%
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| At the height of the Red Scare this senator leads sensationalist attacks against alleged Communists. | Joseph McCarthy | 77%
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| Government policy for about 100 years of forced relocations, land grabs, and outright massacres amount to what is essentially systematic genocide of this large and diverse group. | American Indians | 69%
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| The USAF participates in the bombing of this German city, leaving 25,000 dead. | Dresden | 66%
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| In 1812 a poorly planned invasion of this country ends in fiasco. | Canada | 65%
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| The original sin of the nation, inherited from European colonists, this "peculiar institution" condemned tens of millions of people to lives of unimaginable suffering and hardship. | Slavery | 62%
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| This slave in 1857, when unsuccessfully suing for his own independence, was told by the Supreme Court that he could not be a US citizen due to his race and status as property. | Dred Scott | 49%
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| Firebombing of this city in 1945 kills 100,000 people in a single day. | Tokyo | 49%
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| The war against republican freedom fighters in this country, won by the US after the Spanish-American War, may have resulted in as many as a million deaths. | Philippines | 48%
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| After directing Bad Boys, Armageddon, and Pearl Harbor, this man is allowed to continue making movies. | Michael Bay | 37%
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| During this massacre in Vietnam, hundreds of unarmed civilians are gang raped, murdered, and/or mutilated. Only one Army Lieutenant is convicted. He gets a slap on the wrist. | My Lai | 36%
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| This senator speaks for more than 24 hours nonstop to try and defeat Civil Rights legislation | Strom Thurmond | 28%
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| This Supreme Court decision upholds the legality of racial Segregation. | Plessy v. Ferguson | 25%
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| During this 1932-1972 study, African Americans who thought they were receiving free health care were intentionally infected with syphillis and then not given medical treatment for it. | Tuskegee experiment | 24%
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