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| In 1965, Morton Borden arranged these writings, which were completely collected under their modern name by Herbert Storing in a 1981 edition. These writings, which appeared in the New York Journal, were published under pseudonyms such as Centinel, Brutus, and The Federal Farmer. Arguments for direct democracy and decentralization were made in these writings by George Clinton, Richard Henry Lee, and Patrick Henry. For the point, give this term for the collective body of writings which opposed the ratification of the Constitution. | Anti-Federalist Papers (prompt on descriptive answers such as "essays arguing against ratifying the Constitution"; do not accept or prompt on "Federalist Papers") |
| As the United Labor Party's candidate, this man unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York City but still finished ahead of future president Theodore Roosevelt. This thinker outlined his opposition to tariffs in the 1886 book Protection or Free Trade. This man's ideas inspired Lizzie Maggie to create The Landlord's Game, a predecessor to Monopoly. For the point, name this Gilded Age economist and author of Progress and Poverty whose namesake economic philosophy advocates for a single tax on the value of land. | Henry George (accept Georgism) |
| This treaty confirmed a boundary, 71 years after a survey conducted by John Collins and Thomas Valentine began. Alexander Baring was one of the signatories of this treaty, which listed murder and piracy among the crimes subject to extradition. The Aroostook War was resolved by this agreement, which established a border between Maine and New Brunswick and agreed to the shared use of the Great Lakes between two countries. Partly named for an American secretary of state, for the point, what was this 1842 treaty between the U.S. and the British? | Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
| This activist hired Leonard Abbott and Max Baginski as writers after founding the journal Mother Earth. This person planned to use the botched killing of Henry Clay Frick, by her lover, Alexander Berkman, to gain public attention. After being forcibly removed to the USSR, this activist wrote My Disillusionment in Russia. For the point, name this woman who was a major leader in the U.S. anarchist movement prior to her deportation in the Palmer Raids. | Emma Goldman |
| In this speech, the orator claims that an opponent is "at least a caged and toothless" lion "if not a dead" one. After outlining the positions of "opponents" and "advocates" in this speech, the speaker asks, "Have we no tendency to the latter condition?" In this speech, the orator predicts that one entity "will become all one thing, or all the other." Claiming that it is unrealistic for a government to sustain itself as "permanently half slave and half free," for the point, what is this 1858 speech by Abraham Lincoln in which he claims that a certain segmented body would be unable to hold? | House Divided Speech (accept 1858 Speech before the Illinois Republican State Convention by Abraham Lincoln and similar answers; prompt on partial answers) |
| This family celebrates a reunion each August in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, near where their forefathers had alternated between two plantations for three days at a time. This family's progenitors were drawn to represent America's Civil War divisions, though after the war, Northerners refused to attend freak shows starring those two brothers. This family, who included a rare example of non-white slaveholders, were descended from Chinese immigrants to Thailand. For the point, name this family, whose members Chang and Eng gave rise to the term "Siamese twins." | Bunker (accept Chang Bunker and/or Eng Bunker; prompt on "Siamese twins" before mentioned) |
| This person served as George H.W. Bush's ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution. This star of the film Bright Eyes was known for their signature song, "On the Good Ship Lollipop." This person, who tap danced with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in The Littlest Rebel, names a non-alcoholic cocktail containing grenadine syrup, which she said was "too sweet" in an NPR interview. For the point, name this child actress of the 1930s, the star of Curly Top and Heidi. | Shirley Temple (or Shirley Jane Temple; or Shirley Temple Black) |
| A set of four notes written by this man, which summarized documents of the state department, were named after the city of Baltimore. William L. Marbury, Jr. assisted this man in one effort after another made statements against this man on Meet the Press. This man brought forward libel charges against Whittaker Chambers after Chambers testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee against this man. For the point, name this man, charged with being a communist and a Soviet spy. | Alger Hiss |
| This militant organization named themselves after a lyric from Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” Founded on the campus of the University of Michigan, this group took part in Timothy Leary's 1970 jailbreak. This organization bombed the Capitol building and the Pentagon, the latter on the birthday of Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh. For the point, name this organization, led by Bill Ayers, a militant group of the American radical left, which advocated violence to overthrow American imperialism. | Weather Underground Organization (accept Weathermen; accept WUO) |
| In the aftermath of this battle, Alexander Hamilton was promoted to aide-de-camp for stopping Cornwallis from crossing the Raritan River. Before this battle, John Cadwalader [[kad-WAH-lad-der]] took troops to Bordentown, and James Ewing captured the bridge over Assunpink Creek. During this battle, 900 German soldiers were captured after Johann Rall was shot in the streets of a New Jersey town. For the point, name this battle at which George Washington took advantage of Hessian drunkenness on Christmas and crossed the Delaware River. | Battle of Trenton |
| Parchman Farm served as one of these institutions in Mississippi and took on increased influence following the passage of the “pig law." A lack of healthcare costs resulted in these places taking on increased influence in the South, where their inhabitants provided labor in the aftermath of the Civil War while being “leased." Douglas Blackmon analyzed the use of workers from these institutions in his book Slavery By Another Name. For the point, name these places, such as Angola in Louisiana and ADX Florence, which houses convicted terrorists. | Prisons (accept clear-knowledge equivalents such as Jails; accept Mississippi State Penitentiary) |
| This man presided over the trial of the only member of the U.S. Supreme Court ever to be impeached. This man titles an award-winning 1993 commercial where a man is unable to pronounce his name due to a lack of milk.. Tried for treason, this man’s legal counsel included Luther Martin and Edmund Randolph. This man’s conspiracy entangled both James Wilkinson and Andrew Jackson. For the point, name this man, whose refusal to concede an election resulted in the Twelfth Amendment. | Aaron Burr Jr. |
| This man is honored in the names of both the M26 tank and the MGM-31 missile. This veteran of the Sioux Wars was the only living person to hold the rank of general of the armies of the United States. This officer’s nickname, “Black Jack,” originated from his command of the Buffalo Soldiers of the Tenth Cavalry. This officer led the Punitive Expedition which failed to capture Pancho Villa. For the point, name this person, the commander of the American Expeditionary Force during World War One. | John J (oseph) “Black Jack” Pershing (accept M26 Pershing; accept MGM-31 Pershing) |
| This film ends with its main character delivering a speech at the Democratic National Convention of 1976. Charlie is a paraplegic who befriends the main character in this film, which precedes Heaven & Earth and succeeds Platoon in a trilogy. Written by Marine Corps Sergeant Ron Kovic, this film won Oliver Stone his first Oscar for Best Director. Nominated for Best Picture in 1989, for the point, what is this film, for which Tom Cruise received his first Oscar nomination after playing a Vietnam veteran? | Born on the Fourth of July |
| This woman's daughter, with the same first name, was subjected to an early, anesthetic-free mastectomy by John Warren. This woman is the narrator of three books of historical fiction by Barbara Hambly, including The Ninth Daughter. This woman claimed that "all men would be tyrants if they could" and said, "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands" in a March 1776 letter to her husband, often summarized as "Remember the Ladies." For the point, name this wife of a Founding Father who was also the mother of the sixth president. | Abigail Adams (accept Abigail Smith; prompt on "Adams") |
| This man became an "ace in a day" after shooting down five BF-109 aircraft on October 12, 1944. At age 24, this man was chosen over Slick Goodlin to take part in one effort overseen by the NACA. This West Virginian was the first commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School. An altitude of 45,000 feet was measured when this pilot of a Bell-X1, known as Glamorous Glennis, surpassed Mach One. For the point, name this first man to break the sound barrier. | Chuck Yeager (or Charles Elwood Yeager) |
| This man began his military service at thirteen when he enlisted in the Marine Corps for two years. While serving at the Great Lakes Naval Station during World War One, this man donated his salary to the Sailors’ and Marines’ Relief Funds. This musician commissioned J.W. Pepper to build a namesake instrument, asking for a tuba that could sound upward, over the top of the band. For the point, name this conductor of a namesake band and composer of songs such as "The Thunderer" and "Stars and Stripes Forever." | John Philip Sousa (accept Sousaphone) |
| This man was assisted by Erasmo Seguín in determining the land to be used for one effort. This man's father, Moses, received an empresario from the government of Spain, after which he moved to a region in which he led volunteers at the Siege of Béxar [[BEH-har]]. In New Orleans, this man advertised land along the Brazos River to attract immigrants to a region that led an 1835 to 1836 revolution against Santa Anna. For the point, name this early secretary of state of the Republic of Texas. | Stephen F (uller) Austin |
| Edmund Morgan claimed that this battle provided the victors "the last element needed for victory" in one conflict. A delay in a column led by Simon Fraser stalled attempts by troops to reach a farm owned by loyalist John Freeman. Benedict Arnold was among the officers at this battle and was severely injured in his left leg for the third time. An invasion force commanded by John Burgoyne descended through the Champlain Valley prior to, for the point, what 1777 victory for Horatio Gates during the American Revolution? | Battle (s) of Saratoga (accept Saratoga Campaign) |
| On this party's ticket, Sidney Johnson Catts won the 1916 Florida gubernatorial election after previously losing the Democratic primary. James Hedges was this party's 2016 nominee for president. This party was founded by members of the Movendi International, and Thomas Nast chose a camel to represent this party in his political cartoons. For the point, name this longest-surviving third party in U.S. politics, which achieved its namesake goal with the passage of the Volstead Act and the 18th Amendment. | Prohibition Party (or PRO) |
| During this event, folk singer Dave Van Ronk was arrested by a squad led by Seymour Pine. This event supposedly started when Marsha Johnson shouted, “I got my civil rights!” and threw the “shot glass heard round the world” into a mirror. This event’s location, which was owned by the mafia and became a national monument in 2016, remains a functioning Greenwich Village tavern. For the point, name this 1969 riot, considered the origin of the gay liberation movement in the U.S. | Stonewall Riots (accept “uprising” or “rebellion” in place of riots; accept Stonewall Inn) |
| During this presidential election year, over 108,000 votes were won by Thomas Coleman Andrews as part of the States' Rights Party. The Democratic vice-presidential nominee in this election year was a senator from Tennessee who ran on a ticket with the predecessor of Arthur Goldberg as ambassador to the U.N. The "sense of duty [and] virtue as a family man" of a candidate raised in Abilene, Kansas contributed to this second defeat for Adlai Stevenson. The first presidential election after the Korean War ceasefire, for the point, what was this election year in which Dwight Eisenhower was re-elected? | United States presidential election of 1956 |
| In 1984, this man told the Paris Review that he immigrated from New York to Paris because his “best friend had committed suicide… jumping off the George Washington Bridge.” The Atlantic dubbed this man's “The Devil Finds Work," “The most powerful piece of film criticism ever written." At nearly 1900 pages, this man had the longest FBI file of any Black artist of the Civil Rights era. The author of Giovanni’s Room and Go Tell It on the Mountain, for the point, who was this African-American author and activist? | James Baldwin (or James Arthur Baldwin) |
| In this city, World War Two chemical agents were produced at the Redstone Arsenal. This city is currently home to major biotechnology research at the second-largest research park in the U.S., the Cummings Research Park. Albertville and Decatur form a metropolitan area with this city, to which most of the subjects of Operation Paperclip were transferred from Fort Bliss. Werner von Braun directed a facility in, for the point, what home city of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in north central Alabama? | Huntsville, Alabama |
| Edward Vajda has proposed a language family in which this people’s language is the most-commonly spoken, and the Ket language of Siberia one of the least. In 1864, these people were forced on a 300-mile Long Walk to Bosque Redondo. Kit Carson was ordered to subdue these people, and New Mexican militiamen terrorized these people during the "Fearing Time." In 1868, these Athabaskan people, traditional enemies of the Anasazi and Puebloans, were freed from Bosque Redondo. Despite opposing a 1930s livestock reduction of their sheep, members of, for the point, what ethnic group supported the U.S. Army as code talkers in World War Two? | Navajo (or Diné; or Naabeehó) |
| Due to his consistent indecisiveness regarding running for national office, one politician with this last name was nicknamed the “Hamlet on the Hudson." That politician with this surname was defeated by George Pataki in a 1994 gubernatorial election. Another politician with this last name signed bills to legalize same-sex marriage and recreational cannabis use before resigning in 2021 following a sexual misconduct scandal. For the point, give this last name shared by two governors of New York, Mario and Andrew. | Cuomo (accept Mario Matthew Cuomo; accept Andrew Mark Cuomo) |
| In one book, this man listed precedent and historical context among six judicial tools at the disposal of judges. Like John Paul Stevens, this author of Making Our Democracy Work wrote a dissenting opinion in a case that upheld gun rights in Washington D.C. This justice served on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force and was appointed to the Supreme Court by Bill Clinton, replacing Harry Blackmun. For the point, name this liberal justice who was himself replaced by Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2022. | Stephen Breyer (or Stephen Gerald Breyer) |
| The Bigelow family opened a namesake tea garden in this city which Henry Clinton captured after a month-long siege in 1780. After the Stono Rebellion, a ten-year moratorium was placed on the importation of enslaved persons through this city. Edmund Ruffin ceremoniously fired the first cannon shot from Morris Island at a fort near this city in April 1861. For the point, name this colonial capital of South Carolina, where Fort Sumter was bombarded. | Charleston (accept Charleston Tea Garden; accept Siege of Charleston) |
| Along with George D. Watt, this man developed an alphabet that was intended to replace the Latin alphabet for the English language. This man, who was succeeded in one office by John Taylor, spent a year in Britain with five members of the Quorum of the Twelve. After leading one expedition, this man purportedly said, "This is the place" before building a settlement in the Salt Lake Valley. For the point, name this second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who led the Mormon exodus to Utah. | Brigham Young |
| This place is named after the daughter of printer Stephen C. Toof, who previously owned the land at this location. This building titled a controversial 1986 album by Paul Simon, whose recording broke a cultural boycott of South Africa. One owner of this place commissioned its Jungle Room in the 1960s, which later served as a music studio. For the point, name this museum and colonial revival mansion in the Whitehaven neighborhood of Memphis, the former home of Lisa Marie and Elvis Pressley. | Graceland |
| This person lost a close U.S. Senate election in 1918 to Truman Newberry. This person founded the outdoor living history museum Greenfield Village, which contains buildings such as the Wright brothers' bicycle shop from Dayton. This man purchased the Dearborn Independent newspaper, which promoted his antisemitic views and shocked the world by offering a $5 daily wage to his workers in 1914. For the point, name this American industrialist, known for his innovation of the assembly line, the producer of automobiles including the Model A and the Model T. | Henry Ford |
| In 1973, one holder of this office was accused of corruption by Peter Camiel, after which he volunteered to take a lie detector test, which he failed. The slogan "Vote White" was used by a man who held this office from 1972 to 1980, Frank Rizzo. Another holder of this office, Wilson Goode, called for an apology for the bombing of the MOVE headquarters. Anthony Morris, who was elected to this office in the 1740’s, fled to nearby Bucks County to avoid serving in this role. For the point, name this office, one occupant of which, Jim Kenney, urged restraint during the 2018 Super Bowl victory parade for the Eagles. | Mayor of Philadelphia (prompt on partial answers) |
| This person sold the poem “The God of Battles” to Women’s Home Companion magazine for fifty dollars. At the 1912 Olympics, this person represented the United States in the pentathlon and later served briefly as the military governor of Bavaria. During World War One, this person was the first officer assigned to the Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Force. Leading the Third Army during the Battle of the Bulge, for the point, what general became infamous after slapping a solider suffering from "shell shock"? | George S (mith) Patton, Jr. |
| One account written by this man, which chronicled ExComm meetings during a certain crisis, was titled Thirteen Days. Among the founders of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, this man rose to one Senate seat after defeating Kenneth Keating. This man's support of Israel after the Six-Day War contributed to a 24-year old carrying out an attack. Appointed attorney general in 1961, for the point, who was this man who was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan while campaigning for president in 1968? | Robert F (rancis) Kennedy (accept RFK; accept Bobby Kennedy; prompt on "Kennedy") |
| Richard Humphreys established the first of these institutions in 1837 in Pennsylvania. North Carolina A&T State University has the largest enrollment of these institutions, and Thurgood Marshall and Kamala Harris attended one of these places in Washington, D.C. The term referring to these institutions was created by the Higher Education Act of 1965. For the point, 107 centers of higher learning focusing on African- Americans are known by what collective term? | Historically Black Colleges and Universities (or HBCU's; prompt on partial answers; prompt on general answers before "Higher Education Act" is mentioned) |
| Biologist Robert L. Smith noted how descriptions of this figure bore many similarities to sandhill cranes. One urban legend credits this figure for the Silver Bridge collapse, and this figure's popularity grew after the publishing of John Keel's 1975 book, The [This figure] Prophecies. Part of popular imagination since its first reported sighting in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1960s, for the point, what is this humanoid, cryptid figure known for its large wings and glowing red eyes? | Mothman (accept The Mothman Prophecies) |