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Early History of the United States - Statistics
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Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Year in which Columbus is credited with discovering America | 1492 | 96%
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| Name of the first permanent English settlement | Jamestown | 88%
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| Present-day state in which the above landed | Florida | 79%
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| New Amsterdam, Capital of New Netherland, was changed to this name when the English took control | New York | 79%
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| Ship on which English Separatists arrived in Massachusetts in 1620 | The Mayflower | 75%
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| This doomed English settlement was founded in 1585 off the coast of North Carolina | The Lost Colony of Roanoke | 68%
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| This country explored Alaska with the Second Kamchatka Expedition in the 1730s | Russia | 61%
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| Important Native American confederacy consisting of Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida tribes | Iroquois | 54%
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| Name of the first permanent European settlement, settled in 1565 | St. Augustine | 50%
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| Debtors and “the worthy poor” of England were brought to this future state in the 1730s | Georgia | 46%
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| This Spanish explorer arrived in 1513 on a fleet of ships consisting of the “Santiago”, the “San Cristobal”, and the “Santa Maria de la Consolacion” | Ponce de Leon | 39%
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| This US state was first a kingdom, then a republic, then a territory, but it was never a colony | Hawaii | 34%
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| Date of the first permanent English settlement | 1607 | 30%
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| First documented European to cross the Mississippi River, he died on its banks in 1542 | Hernando DeSoto | 30%
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| This northern city was founded in 1701 by French explorers | Detroit | 27%
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| Year the first documented Africans arrived on a captured slave ship | 1619 | 23%
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| This Florentine explorer was serving the King of France when he explored the east coast. A New York City bridge is named for him | Giovanni da Verrazzano | 23%
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| In 1579 this explorer was believed by many to have come ashore in northern California and named the land New Albion, claiming it from sea to sea for England | Sir Francis Drake | 21%
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| This Spanish explorer came north from Mexico and traveled as far as Kansas looking for seven cities of gold | Francisco Vazquez de Coronado | 18%
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| French Canadian explorer who accompanied the above | Louis Jolliet | 18%
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| Area in Colorado settled by 400 AD which includes the Cliff Palace, largest cliff dwelling in North America | Mesa Verde | 18%
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| This oldest capital city in the US was founded between 1607-1610 | Santa Fe | 18%
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| French Jesuit missionary who explored the region of the northern Mississippi River in the 1600s | Father Jacques Marquette | 16%
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| Native American confederacy in the region of the above settlement | Powhatan | 13%
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| This colony, which brought the log cabin and Lutheranism to America, was captured by the Dutch in 1655 and merged into New Netherland | New Sweden | 9%
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| Year of the above man’s hearing which some credit with formalizing slavery in the US | 1640 | 5%
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| First manufactured product to be exported to Europe from the first permanent settlement | glassware | 2%
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| He is said to have been the first official slave in the colonies | John Punch | 2%
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