American history game

Malte279 · **Reply #40 on:** December 08, 2004, 01:25:46 PM

Is it not the one island in one of whose harbours an American ship exploded in 1898?

Nick22 · **Reply #41 on:** December 08, 2004, 01:50:47 PM

Yes. Malte
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #42 on:** December 08, 2004, 11:34:07 PM

I am going to say the Phillipenes.

Malte279 · **Reply #43 on:** December 09, 2004, 01:50:32 AM

Nope, not the Phillipines, though there too was quite an uproar in the aftermath of the event which I mentioned.

Petrie · **Reply #44 on:** December 09, 2004, 09:31:04 AM

Wait a sec, who's giving the question, Malte or Nick? :unsure: You both act like you're the moderator of the question....I thought Nick posed the question.

If it's not the Phillippenes (though we did at one time try to buy them) then it's Cuba...it was one or the other, but we did try to buy Cuba at one time and it wasn't successful.

Nick22 · **Reply #45 on:** December 09, 2004, 09:34:29 AM

You are right Arvens, we actually tried to buy Cuba more then once. First for $100 million in 1853, then we raised the price to $125 million later that same year. We tried again in 1861, 1867 and 1893. There was a strong push to formally annex Cuba after the Spanish-American War, but the US had pledged not to do so.
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #46 on:** December 09, 2004, 09:39:58 AM

At one time this land had two presidents at the same time. Name who they were and the time.

(I had to word it that way without making the question too obvious)

Nick22 · **Reply #47 on:** December 09, 2004, 10:00:56 AM

The US had two presidents, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War. Davis was the Confederate president, Lincoln was the Union president.
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #48 on:** December 09, 2004, 10:03:27 AM

Didn't matter.

You still figured it out five minutes after I posted it.

Nick22 · **Reply #49 on:** December 09, 2004, 10:09:36 AM

Name two of the commonwealths that are part of the US.
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #50 on:** December 09, 2004, 10:13:27 AM

The Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Neither are states but we have control over them all the same.

Nick22 · **Reply #51 on:** December 09, 2004, 10:15:09 AM

The Virgin islands is not a commonwealth, it is considered a territory. PR is right .there are 2 others that are commonweaths Arvens.
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #52 on:** December 09, 2004, 01:23:55 PM

Hmmm....*thinks*

I thought the Phillippenes were a commonwealth (maybe they were a territory at one time too)...I'm really trying to do this without looking up the answer.

Malte279 · **Reply #53 on:** December 09, 2004, 02:13:21 PM

Guam? It belongs to the USA, but I don't think it is (unlike the Northern Mariana Islands) a commonwealth.

Nick22 · **Reply #54 on:** December 09, 2004, 05:06:37 PM

The Northern Marianas and Guam are the others. Good job Malte. The Phillipines were annexed but were governed as a territory.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #55 on:** December 09, 2004, 05:32:22 PM

Please tell me which US president lost his wife and his mother on the very same day?

Nick22 · **Reply #56 on:** December 09, 2004, 05:35:39 PM

Andrew Jackson
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #57 on:** December 09, 2004, 05:46:47 PM

Nope, I checked it out to make sure that there weren't two presidents who suffered this tragedy, but Jacksons mother died during the War of independence when he wasn't grown up and had not married.
I'm talking of another president.

Petrie · **Reply #58 on:** December 09, 2004, 11:00:20 PM

I'd really hate to cheat and have to look it up.

Nick22 · **Reply #59 on:** December 09, 2004, 11:12:46 PM

How about James Buchanan(sp)?
Nick