Rest easy. More than half of my college students demonstrated that they knew US won our independence from Britain and mentioned a date between 1776-1783.
Here is a list of the rest of the answers:
- Europe, 1797
- The French, 1760
- Britain, 1976
- Spain, 1910
- Some Country, July 4
- China, 1800s
- Mexico, 1804-1820
- Britain, 1920s
- France, 1700s maybe
- Colonies, 1600s
- Britland, 1803
- England, 1677
- Russia, 1856
- France 1889
- China, 1889
- Spain, 16something
- Europe, 1800
- England, 1537
- England? 1930?
- Germany, 1824
- England, We left when the boat left the harbor.
- Germany, 1600s
- Spain, 1800
- Russia, 1904
- Spain, 1808
- Great Britain, January 1, 1869
- Europe, 1730?
- Mexico, 1800s
- England, 1497
