Statistics for Historic Events by State

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The Great Chicago Fire	Illinois	97%
John F. Kennedy's Assassination	Texas	97%
1849 Gold Rush	California	93%
The Stock Exchange Crashed	New York	92%
The Montgomery Bus Boycott	Alabama	86%
The Battle of Gettysburg	Pennsylvania	85%
Elvis Presley's Death	Tennessee	85%
The Eruption of Mount Saint Helens	Washington	85%
The Ford Motor Company is Founded	Michigan	83%
Juan Ponce de Leon's Landing	Florida	78%
The Battle of Lexington and Concord	Massachusetts	76%
The Wright Brothers fly the first Airplane	North Carolina	76%
The First Iditarod	Alaska	69%
James Cook's Death	Hawaii	69%
The Disappearance of Roanoke	Virginia	69%
Thomas Edison reinvents the Lightbulb	New Jersey	66%
Stephen King was Born	Maine	63%
The Battle of Little Bighorn	Montana	59%
The Trail of Tears Ends	Oklahoma	59%
The Continental Railroad Meets	Utah	51%
Women are First Given the Right to Vote	Wyoming	34%
The First time a State Abolished Slavery	Vermont	25%