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Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi in May 1541. Sadly, de Soto died a year after his discovery and was buried in the mud at the river's bottom.

Though he named his settlement Virginia after the Virgin Queen, Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded at Whitehall in 1618 for plotting to overthrow King James.

The correct answer is 50. The remaining 52 men, women, and children were still faithful to the Church of England.

James Ogelthorpe, an Oxford-educated humanitarian, established the colony of Georgia in 1732 to help "the industrious yet unfortunate poor."

Nat Bacon's 1676 rebellion against Virginia Governor Sir William Berkeley is considered the first substantial uprising against colonial governments.

False. He wrote the words in a wonderful poem, but he applied those words to an already existing melody. It was actually from an old British drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven." Read more about "The Star Spangled Banner" here.

Baltimore, Maryland. First used as a fort during the Revolutionary War, the fort remained in active military service until the last active garrison left on July 20, 1912.

False: There's no historical proof that Betsy Ross actually sewed the first U.S. flag. This popular legend seems to have been started by her grandson almost a century after Betsy allegedly threaded her way into history.

The Capitol.

False: The name "Liberty Bell" was coined by the Anti-Slavery Movement in the 1830s, and it referred to the liberty of blacks. In fact, the whole popular legend of the Liberty Bell was made up by a little-known author in the 1840s.