American history game

Malte279 · **Reply #460 on:** December 23, 2005, 02:39:25 PM

I can only guess here (as I don't know the exact election results), but would that be George Corley Wallace (1968 for the American independent party), John Bayard Anderson (1980, independent), and Ross Perot (1992, independent)?

Petrie. · **Reply #461 on:** December 23, 2005, 07:42:23 PM

Well, you got one of them Malte--Ross Perot in 1992. The other two you need to go back over eighty years.

One of the others was from a "progressive" party and he's known for a toy. The other is much trickier to catch, but just about every kid has heard of this guy...he's that well known.

Nick22 · **Reply #462 on:** December 24, 2005, 11:20:35 PM

"Teddy Roosevelt. the Teddy bear was named after him... Robert Lafollete recieved 5 million in the 1920 election.

Malte279 · **Reply #463 on:** December 25, 2005, 05:06:12 AM

But Roosevelt was a republican, wasn't he? And at least for his first term he wasn't elected at all but suceeded as vice president of the assassinated president McKinley.

Petrie. · **Reply #464 on:** December 25, 2005, 09:34:54 AM

Teddy Roosevelt is a correct answer, but the time I was looking for was when he ran for the Progressive Bull Moose Party.

The last one is tricky. The reason its tricky is because we don't think of this person as having been an independent/3rd party candidate but at the time of the election, it was a third party, and wasn't one of the major two. This "independent" candidate won the election. Any ideas who it might be?

Malte279 · **Reply #465 on:** December 25, 2005, 02:37:20 PM

I'm a bit confused about this. Is not an independend canidate somebody running without any party? Or does it exclude only those who are running for the two main parties?

Petrie. · **Reply #466 on:** December 25, 2005, 08:08:42 PM

I think I'm just confusing people with this question.

Believe it or not, the answer is Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party. At this time, the two main parties were the Democrats and the Whigs, so that would make the Republicans in 1860, a third party, or lesser party. I probably didn't word the question that well so you'd really have to get lucky to guess that one.

Malte can give the next one.

Malte279 · **Reply #467 on:** December 26, 2005, 04:41:00 AM

With all the books I read about the time I ought to have known. It is hard nowadays however to consider a republican candidate independent

Without this man the United States would probably not exist (or at least with a very different history), yet you will not find any memorial in the United States bearing the name of this man. There is in fact a memorial to the brave leg of this man, and others which describe the man, but never ever show his name.
Why is that and who is the man I'm talking about?

Nick22 · **Reply #468 on:** December 29, 2005, 07:39:45 PM

The Whiga were nonexistent by 1856 Roger, they were replaced by the Republicans.

Baron Von Steuben

Malte279 · **Reply #469 on:** December 30, 2005, 04:30:40 AM

No. There are certainly monuments in America that bear the name of von Steuben. That never named man I'm asking for was an American himself. The answer should include why there are no memorials with his name despite the fact that the war of independence would have probably been lost without him.

Nick22 · **Reply #470 on:** December 31, 2005, 03:45:54 PM

Did this person particpate in a pivotal battle?

Malte279 · **Reply #471 on:** January 01, 2006, 10:45:08 AM

And most likely it was him who won that pivotal battle for the American cause.

Malte279 · **Reply #472 on:** January 04, 2006, 08:07:18 PM

There were not too many battles as decisive as I described throughout the war of independece. You know that you can rule out certain people (not exactly a shortage of Washington monuments for example

) Think about the one man whose name I expect many of you have heard as it became almost idiomatic for a kind of action that deprived this person from the credits he would have been given had he not committed that particular action. Whom am I talking of?

Nick22 · **Reply #473 on:** January 04, 2006, 11:10:12 PM

Benedict Arnold.

Malte279 · **Reply #474 on:** January 05, 2006, 05:16:49 AM

And what did the man do (part of the question for those who don't know)?

Malte279 · **Reply #475 on:** January 12, 2006, 07:18:07 PM

Common. Just a few lines on what he did, please.

Nick22 · **Reply #476 on:** January 13, 2006, 07:31:19 PM

Sorry.. anyway. Arnold switched his loyalty to the Brtish and turned over a key fort to them. Arnold was one of the Army's most gifted generals there was talk during the low period of 1776-77 that Arnold would replace Washingtoon as Commander of the American forces.

Malte279 · **Reply #477 on:** January 14, 2006, 03:38:51 AM

^ The victory at Saratoga was primarily his work. It came at a time when the American cause could not have stand many more defeats. The victory however was of major importance to convince the French to join the war. Without their support the war would almost certainly have been lost.
Arnold found that he was not given proper credit for his victory at Saratoga (Horatio Gates got most of the credit while his actual part in the victory has been questioned in later times), also Arnolds wife (a fierce Loyalist) probably played her part in her husbands treachery.
He did not actually hand over the Fort to the British as the plot was discovered early through the capture of British major Andree who had met Arnold before. Andree was later hung (a fact many Americans mourned almost as much as the British) while Arnold managed to flee in time.
You all know the Fort he meant to hand over, though you will know the later established militry school rather than the fort itself. It is West Point.

Your turn Nick.

Nick22 · **Reply #478 on:** January 15, 2006, 02:30:21 PM

What disputed election ended Reconstrution, and why was it so Disputed?

Malte279 · **Reply #479 on:** February 02, 2006, 05:36:39 PM

The presidential election of 1876 in which Rutherford Hays became president.
The other candidate, Samuel Tilden defeated Rutherford Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes yet uncounted. These 20 electoral votes were in dispute: in three states (Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina) each party reported its candidate had won the state, while in Oregon one elector was declared illegal and replaced.
With a really serious constitutional crisis impending the U.S. Congress passed a law forming a 15-member Electoral Commission to settle the result. Five members came from each house of the U.S. Congress, and they were joined by five members of the United States Supreme Court. William M. Evarts served as counsel for the Republican Party.