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. Why was the Viking settlement at L'anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland abandoned?
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. What was the cause of the possession-like symptoms of the young girls in Salem in 1692, that their doctor attributed to the supernatural?
6. Did Alexander Hamilton cut a deal with Thomas Jefferson to make him president?
7. Was Meriwether Lewis murdered?
8. Was the so-called corrupt bargain real and, if so, was there anything wrong with it?
9. Why did the Tariff of Abominations pass?
10. Did President James Buchanan arrange the Dred Scott decision?
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?
22. Who killed John F. Kennedy?

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