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1 George Washington 15x
2 Cuba 14x
3 Andrew Jackson 12x
4 the Maine 11x
5 Oklahoma 10x
6 Alaska 10x
7 Thomas Jefferson 10x
8 Philadelphia 9x
9 the Louisiana Purchase 9x
10 the War of 1812 9x
11 the Mississippi 9x
12 Texas 8x
13 New York 8x
14 Jamestown 8x
15 Hawaii 8x
16 California 8x
17 the Declaration of Independence 8x
18 Andrew Johnson 8x
19 Benjamin Franklin 8x
20 Virginia 7x
21 Sam Houston 7x
22 Puerto Rico 7x
23 Dred Scott 7x
24 Chicago 7x
25 the Civil War 7x
26 Woodrow Wilson 6x
27 Rhode Island 6x
28 prohibition 6x
29 poverty 6x
30 John Brown 6x
31 Jefferson Davis 6x
32 Daniel Boone 6x
33 Alexander Hamilton 6x
34 Aaron Burr 6x
35 Theodore Roosevelt 6x
36 Dwight Eisenhower 6x
37 the Whigs 6x
38 World War I 5x
39 William Jennings Bryan 5x
40 the Constitution 5x
41 Susan B. Anthony 5x
42 John Marshall 5x
43 John Jay 5x
44 Huey Long 5x
45 gold 5x
46 George Wallace 5x
47 Florida 5x
48 China 5x
49 Boss Tweed 5x
50 John Sherman 5x

Sample Clues

( Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, PA.) According to affidavits from Betsy Ross's relatives, this famous man came into her shop in 1776 to ask Betsy to make a...
George Washington
The first women's club in New York was La Liga de las Hijas de this island where a rebellion against Spain was sending refugees norte-ward
Cuba
In 1851 students at VMI couldn't stonewall this professor of natural & experimental philosophy
Andrew Jackson
Sunken battleship "remembered" by those clamoring for the Spanish-American War
the Maine
On Sept. 16, 1893 the Cherokee Outlet in this U.S. territory was opened to white settlement
Oklahoma

Sub-Areas

Other 1,568
Revolutionary Era 84
Civil War 63
Colonial / Exploration 62
Cold War 27
World War I 22
Modern (post-1990) 8
Ancient 7
Medieval 5
World War II 5
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