Year | Hint | Answer |
1776 | Thomas Paine publishes Common____ | Sense |
1777 | The Continental Congress adopts the stars and | Stripes |
1778 | Oliver Pollack creates this symbol "$" (type what the symbol is) | Dollar |
1779 | John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great____ | Britain |
1780 | ______ Arnold betrays America | Benedict |
1781 | Previous burns the capital of Virginia (type the capital) | Richmond |
1782 | John Adams secures recognition from the | Dutch |
1783 | Great Britain recognizes U.S_________ | Independence |
1784 | Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness about the eagle being America's____ | Symbol |
1785 | Congress votes to change the U.S _______to the dollar | Currency |
1786 | Shay's _________ starts | Rebellion |
1787 | Delaware become the first offical U.S___ | State |
1788 | Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the _____ | Constitution |
1789 | George Washington becomes the first_____ | President |
1790 | George Washington gives the first state of the _____ adress | Union |
1791 | The First US _______ Meeting | Cabinet |
1792 | The first Columbus Day is celebrated in New | York |
1793 | Eli Whitney invents the Cotton____ | Gin |
1794 | U.S establishes a permanent____ | Navy |
1795 | U.S and Great Britain sign the Jay_____ | Treaty |
1796 | George Washington declines a third____ | Term |
1797 | Nathaniel Briggs patents the washing___ | Machine |
1798 | The Marine_____ is established | Corps |
1799 | George Washington's body is buried at Mount____ | Vernon |
1800 | John Adams become the first president to ____ in the White House | Live |
1801 | John Marshall is appointed Chief_____ | Justice |
1802 | Martha Washington ______ away | Passes |
1803 | America expands due to the Louisiana______ | Purchase |
1804 | Lewis and Clark go out ____ | West |
1805 | Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific | Ocean |
1806 | Yale Literary Government publishes its first_____ | Issue |
1807 | Aaron____ was arrested for treason | Burr |
1808 | The importation of _____ into the U.S was banned | Slaves |
1809 | the first U.S______ was published by William Maclure | Geology |
1810 | The temperature in New Hampshire dropped from 54°F to -12°F in one____ | Day |
1811 | William Henry Harrison defeats Tec*mseh's army in the Battle of________ | Tippecanoe |
1812 | The war of____ begins | 1812 |
1813 | Pride and ______ was pubslihed | Prejudice |
1814 | The British burn down the | White House |
1815 | The Library of Congress is reestablished after being _____ | burnt |
1816 | James Monroe beats Rufus king, a member of the______ party in the presidential race | Federalist |
1817 | John Adams' song John _____ Adams becomes Secretary of State | Quincy |
1818 | Andrew Jackson conquers Spanish Fort San Marcos in which became the First ________War | Seminole |
1819 | Thomas Jefferson and others founded the University of________ | Virginia |
1820 | Joseph Smith has is first_____ | Vision |
1821 | James Boyd patents the rubber fire_____ | Hose |
1822 | 2 men betray a slave revolt, resulting in 35 slaves being_____ | Hung |
1823 | James Monroe creates a doctrine bearing his name (type the doctrines name) | Monroe Doctrine |
1824 | An election deadlock between John Quincy Adams and Andrew_______ | Jackson |
1825 | One of the previous men gets elected president (type the name) | John Quincy Adams |
1826 | John Adams and Thomas _____die the same day | Jefferson |
1827 | Brown v________ | Maryland |
1828 | The_________party is founded | Democratic |
1829 | Andre Jackson gets _______ as the 7th president | Inaugurated |
1830 | The beginning of the Trail of _____ | Tears |
1831 | William Lloyd Garrison publishes the first issue of an abolitionist newspaper called______ | The Liberator |
1832 | The source of the Mississippi_____ is discovered | River |
1833 | A ____ derails at Hightstown New Jersey | Train |
1834 | Stephen F. Austin is imprisoned in Mexico_____ | City |
1835 | Richard Lawrence becomes the first person to attempt to _________ a president | Assassinate |
1836 | Davy Crockett arrives in Texas to aid the ________ | Revolution |
1837 | Michigan becomes the ____ U.S state | 26th |
1838 | The Great Western docks in New York_____ | City |
1839 | Henry Clay states "I had rather be______ than president" | Right |
1840 | Alexander Wolcott and John Johnson open the Daguerreian______ | Parlor |
1841 | William Henry Harrison dies only one _____ into office | Month |
1842 | Charles______ comes to America | Dickens |
1843 | An alligator fell out of the____ | Sky |
1844 | John C. Frémont discover ____ Tahoe | Lake |
1845 | The first Dark _____ president, Jame K. Polk gets elected | Horse |
1846 | Congress votes for a war against _______ | Mexico |
1847 | The Battle of Buena____ | Vista |
1848 | Phineas Gage has a tamping rod go through his Frontal____ | Lobe |
1849 | Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first ____ to earn a medical degree in the US | Woman |
1850 | A compromise was made with the name of its year, it was the Compromise of___ | 1850 |
1851 | The first black women's _____ convention | Rights |
1852 | Uncle Tom's _____ gets published | Cabin |
1853 | Franklin Pierce's child dies in a _____-wreck | Train |
1854 | The ______ party is founded | Republican |
1855 | Walt Whitman's book Leaves of ______is published | Grass |
1856 | The American Party nominates their presidential candidate Millard________ | Fillmore |
1857 | The Dred _____ Decision | Scott |
1858 | Abolitionists create Crispus ______ Day | Attackus |
1859 | Joshua Abraham Norton proclaims himself ________ Norton | Emperor |
1860 | South Carolina _______from the Union | Secedes |
1861 | Beginning of the_____ | Civil War |
1862 | A confederate general (his name is the next question) moves north of ________ | Virginia |
1863 | Stonewall ______ is killed | Jackson |
1864 | Grant is named commander of the ____ army | U.S |
1865 | Abaraham Lincoln is shot by______ | John Wilkes Booth |
1866 | Jesse James steals $ __,000 | 15 |
1867 | The Alaska_____ | Purchase |
1868 | Andrew Johnson becomes the first president to be _______ | Impeached |
1869 | Elizabeth Stanton becomes the first woman to ________ in congress | Testify |
1870 | The Brooklyn________ is completed | Bridge |
1871 | Brigham Young arrested for______ | Bigamy |
1872 | Louis Riel is exiled to St,____ Minnesota | Paul |
1873 | the first U.S ______ card is issued | Postal |
1874 | Jesse James robs a ______ in Missouri | Train |
1975 | Jesse James robs another previous answer in__________ | Missouri |
1876 | The Kentucky Meat_______ | Shower |
1877 | Battle of _____ Mountain | Wolf |
1878 | Congress overrides Rutherford Hayes' veto on the Bland-________Act | Allison |
1879 | ______ patents the electric lamp | Edison |
1880 | James A. ________ is inaugurated as president | Garfield |
1881 | Previous is shot by Charles ________ | Guiteau |
1882 | The senate ratifies the first ______ Convention | Geneva |
1883 | The first electric lighting ______ | System |
1884 | The Statue of Liberty is presented to the U.S in______ | Paris |
1885 | Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry _____ | Finn |
1886 | The Statue of________ is given to the United States | Liberty |
1887 | Lincoln was re______ | Burried |
1888 | Francis Tumblety flees to the U.S after being accused of the Jack the______ murders | Ripper |
1889 | The first non-segregated U.S ________ | Hospital |
1890 | the first U.S edition of Sherlock _________ | Holmes |
1891 | Benjamin _________ visits San Fransisco | Harrison |
1892 | A mine explosion kills ___ people | 100 |
1893 | Grover Cleveland gets elected to a second nonconsecutive____ | Term |
1894 | the 1st _____ epidemic breaks out | Polio |
1895 | The Red Badge of _________ is pubslihed | Courage |
1896 | The first modern _____________ | Olympics |
1897 | William McKinley is inaugurated to his _____ term | First |
1898 | The _______-American war begins | Spanish |
1899 | The previous war ____ | Ends |
1900 | Next answer gets his _______ term | Second |
Year | Hint | Answer |
1901 | Leon Czolgosz Shoots President William _____ | McKinley |
1902 | It became criminal for ___ to "looking at a woman in that way" | Men |
1903 | Theodore and Edith _________ renovate the White House | Roosevelt |
1904 | Previous commissions the Panama ______ | Canal |
1905 | Elihu Root becomes ________ of State | Secretary |
1906 | San Fransisco suffers a 7.9____ | Earthquake |
1907 | Teddy shakes 8,513 hands in _ day | 1 |
1908 | The first _________ motion picture, Fantasmagorie is made | Animated |
1909 | William Taft becomes the 27th president during a __" snowstorm | 10 |
1910 | Taft throws the first_____ | Pitch |
1911 | The next answer sets sail for New York _____ | City |
1912 | The unsinkable ship sinks | Titanic |
1913 | Roosevelt ran for another term splitting the vote making Woodrow ______ president despite getting 42% in the popular vote | Wilson |
1914 | Hery For announces his $_ minimum per day wage | 5 |
1915 | Wilson refuses to allow immigration of _______ | Illiterates |
1916 | Wilson states the U.S will abide by ______ warfare | Maritime |
1917 | Uncle ___ was popularized | Sam |
1918 | the __th amendment | 18 |
1919 | Henry Ford's ___succeeds Henry | Son |
1920 | The beginning of ______ outlawing alcohol | Prohibition |
1921 | Warren G. Harding becomes the __th president | 29 |
1922 | Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to _____ over radio | Speak |
1923 | Warren G. Harding suddenly dies of a heart_____ | Attack |
1924 | The follow the bouncing ___ technique for music was invented by Max Fleischer | Ball |
1925 | The Great _____ is pubslihed | Gatsby |
1926 | Disney Brothers Studios becomes known as _____ Disney Studios | Walt |
1927 | The ________ premiers in NYC | General |
1928 | Steamboat _______ is made | Willie |
1929 | The stock market ______ | Crash |
1930 | Taft resigns as Chief _______ | Justice |
1931 | Edison makes his _____ pattent | Last |
1932 | Charles Lindbergh's son was_____________ | Kidnapped |
1933 | Someone attempted to ____________ FDR | Assassinate |
1934 | Babe ____ gets a pay cut | Ruth |
1935 | A man enters a hotel and mysteriously dies his name was stated to be Roland T. Owen. But his real name is Artemis_________ | Ogletree |
1936 | The first baseball hall of _____ | Fame |
1937 | Howard Hughes sets the transcontinental air ______ with 7h 28m 25s | Record |
1938 | A statue of Henry _________ is erected | Hudson |
1939 | The Wizard of __ releases | Oz |
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt gets elected to a third term making him the person with the longest ____ | Presidency |
1941 | Pearl Harbor is bombed marking the U.S involvement into______ | World War 2 |
1942 | Winston ________ flies to Florida | Churchill |
1943 | Josh Gibson suffers a nervous ______ | Breakdown |
1944 | Flying Ace, Pappy Boyington was shot_____ by Japanese forces | Down |
1945 | The United States drops nuclear bombs on ______ and Nagasaki effectively ending WW2 | Hiroshima |
1946 | Bikini ____ is evacuated | Atol |
1947 | A doctrine was made titled with the current president, the ____ Doctrine | Truman |
1948 | Truman raises _____ for the Marshall Plan | Taxes |
1949 | Truman coins the term ____ Deal | Fair |
1950 | The U.S enters the Korean____ | War |
1951 | The 22nd amendment was ratified, limiting a president to only ___ terms | Two |
1952 | African _____ is released in the U.S | Queen |
1953 | Truman announces the ________ Bomb | Hydrogen |
1954 | Segregation in______ was labeled unconstitutional | Schools |
1955 | The first presidential TV news__________ | Confrence |
1956 | Elvis records Heartbreak_______ | Hotel |
1957 | Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Middle_____ | East |
1958 | The __________ Karamazov premiers | Brothers |
1959 | Alaska become the __ state | 49th |
1960 | John F. ________ announces he's running for president (big mistake) | Kennedy |
1961 | The first episode of the Dick Van _____ Show is filmed | Dyke |
1962 | The Cuban ______Crisis | Missile |
1963 | John F. Kennedy is Assassinated by | Lee Harvey Oswald |
1964 | Johnson declares a war on _________ | Poverty |
1965 | The U.S enters the Vietnam___ | War |
1966 | The original ______ show starring Adam West releases | Batman |
1967 | Wilt Chamberlain makes all 15 field _____ attempts | Goal |
1968 | Martin Luther King Jr. is shot by | James Earl Ray |
1969 | The moon______ | Landing |
1970 | The Zapurder ____ is publically released | Film |
1971 | Charles Liston is found ____ by his wife | Dead |
1972 | Aretha _______ sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral | Franklin |
1973 | Michael Burke buys the ________ | Yankees |
1974 | Richard Nixon resigns because of the ________ Scandal | Watergate |
1975 | Phyllis Diller gets a ____ on the Walk of Fame | Star |
1976 | The ______ Bell is moved | Liberty |
1977 | Star _____ releases in theaters | Wars |
1978 | Harbey Milk becomes the first openly ___person elected to public office in CA | Gay |
1979 | Carter proposes to make MLK's __________ a federal holiday | Birthday |
1980 | Frank Sinatra plays in Rio de_______ | Janeiro |
1981 | Muhammad Ali talks a person out of committing _________ | Suicide |
1982 | John Carpenter's The _____ is released | Thing |
1983 | Reagan ends U.S arms in _________ | Guatemala |
1984 | Van Halen releases an album (same name as the year it came out) | 1984 |
1985 | Ronald Reagan goes to _____, Germany sparking the controversy of the same name | Bitburg |
1986 | New York Islander, Mike Bossy scores his ___th career goals | 500 |
1987 | Reagan signs a secret order permitting covert arms sale to ____ | Iran |
1988 | _______-U.S trade agreement | Canada |
1989 | (My sister made me put this one) Taylor_______ is born | Swift |
1990 | First________ American NY Mayor | African |
1991 | The ________ ends | Cold War |
1992 | Robert Parish registers______ career blocks | 2,000 |
1993 | Start II is ______ | Signed |
1994 | Malcom _'s daughter is arrested | X |
1996 | The last The ___ Side comic | Far |
1996 | 38th ______ 500 | Daytona |
1997 | Frank ______ has a heart attack | Sinatra |
1998 | Clinton gets________ | Impeached |
1999 | Clinton Impeachment _____ | Trial |
2000 | Dan ______ wins his last game | Marino |
2001 | The ________ are hit by terrorist planes | Twin Towers |
2002 | No Child Left ______ act | Behind |
2003 | Jimmy _____ Live! premiers | Kimmel |
2004 | Casey Kasem gives up hosting American Top __ | 40 |
2005 | The first African- American woman to become Secretary of _____ | State |
2006 | Kobe Bryant scores __ points in a game | 81 |
2007 | Steve Jobs introduces the_____ | iPhone |
2008 | the Financial_____ | Crash |
2009 | Michael Jackson dies of an | Overdose |
2010 | Simon Cowell leaves American ____ | Idol |
2011 | The killing of Osama ________ | Bin Laden |
2012 | LeBron James becomes the______ player to score 20,00 career points | Youngest |
2013 | Mike Pence becomes governor of ________ | Indiana |
2014 | First drummer for the band Ramones, _____ Ramone/Erdelyi dies of Bile Duct Cancer | Tommy |
2015 | Schitt's _____ is created | Creek |
2016 | LA ______ gas leak | Methane |
2017 | Obama gives Biden Presidential Medal of _______ | Freedom |
2018 | Lawyers of Trump attempt to stop publication of Fire and ____ | Fury |
2019 | Trump's ____ Office Address | Oval |
2020 | The COVID-19 ________ takes over the world | Pandemic |
2021 | Elon Musk becomes the worlds ________ Person | Richest |
2022 | Russia invades________ | Ukraine |
2023 | Hamas attacks ______ | Israel |
2024 | Donald Trump gets convicted of __ charges | 34 |