19th Century America

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1 Boss Tweed 6x

2 John Jacob Astor 6x

3 the Erie Canal 5x

4 Brigham Young 5x

5 Andrew Johnson 5x

6 Texas 4x

7 Susan B. Anthony 4x

8 Mark Twain 4x

9 cotton 4x

10 Chicago 4x

11 Andrew Jackson 4x

12 Thomas Jefferson 4x

13 Seward 4x

14 Noah Webster 4x

15 Thomas Edison 4x

16 Stephen Foster 4x

17 Abraham Lincoln 4x

18 Horace Greeley 4x

19 Walt Whitman 3x

20 vice president 3x

21 the Monroe Doctrine 3x

22 Philadelphia 3x

23 Mexico 3x

24 John Deere 3x

25 Henry Clay 3x

26 Dred Scott 3x

27 Aaron Burr 3x

28 the Whigs 3x

29 the War of 1812 3x

30 Samuel Morse 3x

31 Robert E. Lee 3x

32 Dewey 3x

33 Austin 3x

34 (George) Pullman 3x

35 Wounded Knee 2x

36 William Henry Harrison 2x

37 Wild Bill Hickok 2x

38 Washington, D.C. 2x

39 Tuskegee 2x

40 the Mississippi 2x

41 the Johnstown flood 2x

42 the Battle of Bunker Hill 2x

43 Tennessee 2x

44 Stephen Douglas 2x

45 Stephen Decatur 2x

46 slavery 2x

47 Ohio 2x

48 Missouri 2x

49 Mathew Brady 2x

50 Louisiana 2x

Sample Clues

This New York City politician was convicted of 204 charges of fraud in an 1873 court case

Boss Tweed

His Pacific Fur Company was founded on June 23, 1810, in order to extend his fur influence over the Northwest

John Jacob Astor

This 363-mile waterway opened on October 26, 1825

the Erie Canal

In 1871 the federal government arrested this Mormon leader for polygamy

Brigham Young

He never appeared at his 1868 impeachment trial

Andrew Johnson

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Other 495

John Jacob Astor (7) Boss Tweed (6) Noah Webster (6) Andrew Jackson (5) Andrew Johnson (5) Brigham Young (5) (George) Pullman (5) Susan B. Anthony (5) Thomas Jefferson (4) Austin (4)

Civil War 23

Jefferson Davis (2) Clara Barton (2) Robert E. Lee (2) Tennessee (2) the Emancipation Proclamation (1) cotton (1) Civil War (1) Reconstruction (1) Bull Run (1) John Tyler (1)

Revolutionary Era 9

Daniel Webster (2) the Fugitive Slave Law (or Act) (1) Thoreau (1) the Liberty Bell (1) Lee (1) Philadelphia (1) Independence Hall (1) liberty (1)

Medieval 6

the Smithsonian (1) Mexico City (1) Knights of Columbus (1) the Knights of Labor (1) Labor (1) the Wright Brothers (1)

Colonial / Exploration 6

the Pledge of Allegiance (1) the Cumberland Road (1) Lewis & Clark (1) The American Federation of Labor (1) New World Symphony (1) Columbus (1)

Modern (post-1990) 5

DeWitt Clinton (3) the Erie Canal (2)

Ancient 1

the Erie Canal (1)

World War II 1

Pearl Harbor (1)