American history game

Nick22 · **Reply #100 on:** December 18, 2004, 01:26:58 PM

Yes. less than 100. There have been very few elections where votes have been in dispute after election day, but this is one of them.
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #101 on:** December 19, 2004, 12:27:29 PM

I don't have the exact number I'm afraid.

I'd hate to look it up and cheat.

Nick22 · **Reply #102 on:** December 21, 2004, 10:54:44 AM

There were 20 in dispute in 1876. I know that doesn't seem like a large number but there have been very few elections where votes were in dispute. Hayes won all 20 votes to edge Samuel Tilden by 1 vote 185-184.
Nick

Nick22 · **Reply #103 on:** December 30, 2004, 02:00:56 AM

Anyone who wants to give a shot at asking the next question, feel free to do so.
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #104 on:** December 30, 2004, 10:06:04 AM

Then I shall.

This group had for some sixty years been trying to establish certain rights for their group but did not see success until the passage of an amendment in the 20th century.

(This sounds like something you'd hear on Jeopardy.

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Nick22 · **Reply #105 on:** December 30, 2004, 04:44:48 PM

What are Women?
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #106 on:** December 30, 2004, 10:15:42 PM

*in his best Alex Trebek voice*

Right you are, select again.

Nick22 · **Reply #107 on:** December 31, 2004, 03:19:14 PM

By how many votes was President Grant's bid for a third term defeated?
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #108 on:** January 03, 2005, 11:52:53 AM

Sorry, I don't know such election results by heart, and I can't find it at google either. All the pages just seem to say that Grant got 306 votes in 36 conscutive ballots, but they don't say by how many votes Garfield won.
It would have been sort of interesting if Grant had won. He would've had to run against his Civil War time subordinate W. S. Hancock.

Nick22 · **Reply #109 on:** January 03, 2005, 03:12:00 PM

The count was 233 to 18.
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #110 on:** January 03, 2005, 03:13:10 PM

(side note: I hate using the internet to find the answer because I feel I cheated

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Malte279 · **Reply #111 on:** January 03, 2005, 03:25:46 PM

I do not consider it cheating. Who knows how to get information will be able to find information if there is need. Nobody is able to remember all the information about everything that may ever possibly be asked. I don't suppose that anyone here could answer questions about precise election results without looking them up. In case of this vote against a third term of office for Grant I didn't find it. I guess we need a new question Nick.

Nick22 · **Reply #112 on:** January 03, 2005, 04:55:02 PM

I have a very good memory I so I can remember stuff like that. Here is another. Which impioverished country asked to be annexed by the US in the 1870's, and by how many votes did the Senate say no?
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #113 on:** January 03, 2005, 05:10:27 PM

No idea.

Nick22 · **Reply #114 on:** January 03, 2005, 05:40:11 PM

Keep trying Malte. The country is in the Western Hemisphere
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #115 on:** January 03, 2005, 05:47:57 PM

I suspect it to be some Latin American country, but I tried google with keywords such as America refuse annex annexion 1870, 1871, 1872... 1879. etc. Even if I did find something about it, I seriously doubt that they put the vote result up. Like I indicated, I'm not too good at remembering numbers unless I have a direct interest in them (I can remember dates of historical events that interest me). However, in general I care more about the consequences of a vote than about the numbers; more about what a president said or did than the number of voters who brought him into office (unless this is of significant importance as it is in some cases).

Petrie · **Reply #116 on:** January 03, 2005, 06:36:20 PM

I really think it was Puerto Rico or Cuba.

Nick22 · **Reply #117 on:** January 03, 2005, 06:50:37 PM

It was neither of those , but was in the Carribean.
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #118 on:** January 03, 2005, 10:02:53 PM

Could it be Jamacia because of the sugar industry?

Nick22 · **Reply #119 on:** January 04, 2005, 12:31:25 PM

No, But you're getting closer to the country's location.
Nick