Essay:Greatest Mysteries of American History

Here is a growing list of unsolved mysteries in American History:

1. Where did the American Indians come from?
2. Did the Vikings ever settle in North America and, if so, where and what happened to it?
3. How was Christopher Columbus able to navigate himself across the Atlantic Ocean on his second voyage to find the precise same location that he colonized on his first voyage?
4. What happened to the Lost Colony?
5. Was Meriwether Lewis murdered?
6. Was the so-called corrupt bargain real and, if so, was there anything wrong with it?
7. Why did the Tariff of Abominations pass?
8. Did President James Buchanan arrange the Dred Scott decision?
9. Could the Civil War be avoided with a peaceful solution?
10. Could the South have possibly won the Civil War?
11. What caused the USS Maine to explode?
12. What caused the Great Depression?
13. What really caused the repeal of Prohibition?
14. Who was the lone dissent on the jury in the court martial of Billy Mitchell?
15. Did FDR have advance knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
16. Why did FDR, who knew he was dying, replace his Vice President Henry Wallace with Harry S Truman to make Truman the next president?
17. Why did the U-2 spy plane crash-land in the Soviet Union?
18. Did a communist sympathizer in the U.S. government leak plans of the Bay of Pigs invasion to Castro?
19. What happened to Jimmy Hoffa, Judge Crater and D. B. Cooper, who disappeared without a trace?
20. What role did Justice William Brennan have in writing Roe v. Wade?
21. Where did President Ronald Reagan get the idea and impetus for proposing the Strategic Defense Initiative?

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