Thanksgiving Day quiz

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, the annual holiday where families sit down and give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims survive their first winter in America – and to help celebrate this joyous occasion, Michael O'Mara Books has devised a quiz to test your knowledge of other momentous events in US history.
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Who was the first European to step onto American soil?
What notorious cargo first arrived in America in Jamestown in 1619?
In which year did American colonists boycott English tea in response to a new tea tax, resulting in an angry confrontation in Boston Harbour where 342 chests of tea were dumped into the sea?
Which founding father invented the lightning rod and bifocals?
A secret network of wagon trails and other routes into the northern states and Canada, managed by abolitionists in the mid 19th century to help southern slaves escape to freedom, was called what?
Which 1852 best-selling novel helped fuel a debate that was to lead America into civil war?
Whose foolhardy ‘last stand’ in 1876 was to prove a hollow victory for the Plains Indians?
Which profession did Theodore Roosevelt label ‘the muckrakers’ in the early years of the 20th century?
When did Wall Street crash?
Who appealed for the nation’s help in November 1963, declaring: 'An assassin’s bullet has thrust upon me the awesome burden of the presidency'?
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