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American history game

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Hi!
Same as in the German history game questions on history are to be put up here. Anyone who answers a question may come up with a new one, but you don't have to. I'll do my best not to make it too difficult.
Please tell me if I'm of limits, as I want this game to be fun rather than a school lesson for you  :)

Which person whose face is on an American banknote was killed in a duell?


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Alexander Hamilton. He is on the $10 bill, and was killed by Aaron Burr in 1804.
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Who are the only two US presidents to be impeached?
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Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) and Bill Clinton (1993-2000).


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Very good Arvens. Its your turn to ask a question.
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Name a few important transportation systems that revolutionized America economically in the early 19th century (1800s).  In other words ,without them America probably would not have had as much commercial/economic success.


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The railroad was of special importance, and so were canals that allowed ships to transport goods apart from the large rivers, especially in the North eastern states.


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Railroads- connected Eastern America to California.
Ships- allowed US goods to reach distant shores.
Those are thev ones I can think of off the top of my head.
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Indeed, canals, railroads, and actual roads themselves helped the transportation network within the United States.  I'm giving it to Malte because he mentioned canals, and those were very important by offering a much cheaper (and safer) alternative in the early days of the railroads. :)


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Canals- of course. Good job Malte.
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Okay, here is the next one about American history.
At which place did they fire "the shot that was heard around the world"?

In a way the question itself is formulated as a riddle, so if the formulation doesn't tell you anything, let me know, and I shall make it plainer.


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I probably have the name wrong but I think it was called Lexington, Massachusetts.  :unsure:


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Nothing wrong at all Arvens  :)
It's perfectly right! On April 19th 1775 the shot that triggered the American war of independence (that was later refered to as "the shot that was heard around the world") was fired on Lexington green. To this day it is uncertain whether this shot was fired by a British regular or an American militiaman.


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Chalk another one up for the future history middle school teacher. :)

Name the four slaveholding states that did not secede from the Union in the 1860s.


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Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and Deleware.
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A big fat star goes next to the question number and Nick can take the stage. :)


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Name 3 of the 4 presidents who were assassinated.
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Even though I did't put up the question I can assure you your answer is correct Nick. They were especially worried about the possibility that Maryland might join the South during the first days of the Civil War (which would have resulted in Washington D.C. being surrounded by confederate states. There were riots in Baltimore in these first days, and if I'm not very mistaken these riots caused the first human losses in the Civil War.


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Gee! Two messages were posted while I was working on my last one!
Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William MacKinley, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.


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(Something tells me Malte was replying while a new question was put up. :p)