American history game

Nick22 · **Reply #520 on:** December 04, 2006, 04:51:38 PM

A path to the indies , (what was called the "northwest passage)

Malte279 · **Reply #521 on:** December 04, 2006, 04:54:43 PM

Having that in mind, what do you suppose might have been the discovery of Vespucci?
And who was the guy who came up with the name America (a German by the way)?

Nick22 · **Reply #522 on:** December 04, 2006, 05:07:42 PM

Martin Waldseemueller, and the discovery by Verspucci was that South america was much larger than previously thought..

Malte279 · **Reply #523 on:** December 04, 2006, 05:26:37 PM

Martin Waldseem¸ller is correct.
Only the discovery of Vespucci is yet to be answered. Keep in mind, Columbus had thought he had found the sea passage to India. Amerigo Vespucci's discovery was not that of a particular territory. What might it be?

Grievous55 · **Reply #524 on:** December 04, 2006, 09:25:10 PM

Vespucci was the one to determine that the northern and southern continents of the New World were separate from Asia.

Malte279 · **Reply #525 on:** December 05, 2006, 01:49:20 AM

True

Vespucci was the first who figured out that the newly discovered continent was a new continent (at least he was the first to say so aloud).
Nick22 or Grievous55, first one of you who makes it here may post the next question.

Nick22 · **Reply #526 on:** December 05, 2006, 11:00:37 AM

besides the United States, which country is the oldest in the Western Hemisphere?

Malte279 · **Reply #527 on:** December 05, 2006, 02:37:51 PM

Haiti?

Nick22 · **Reply #528 on:** December 05, 2006, 02:39:49 PM

Yes, it was founded in 1804... although for most of the 200 years since it has been unstable, and it remains so today..

Malte279 · **Reply #529 on:** December 05, 2006, 05:46:42 PM

...big surprise looking at what was done to this country throughout its history.

Which former US President got burried with the flag of the confederate states of America strapped over his coffin?

Nick22 · **Reply #530 on:** December 05, 2006, 05:48:51 PM

Would that be andrew Johnson? no... that's not right..

Malte279 · **Reply #531 on:** December 05, 2006, 06:04:16 PM

No way. The Southerners considered him a traitor. He died after the end of the Civil War (as Lincoln's successor his presidency was almost completely after the Civil War).
It may be helping to know that the candidate we are talking of was called "his accidency" when he came to office. Of course there was a reason why he was called that name.

Grievous55 · **Reply #532 on:** December 05, 2006, 10:06:53 PM

Was it Ford?

Malte279 · **Reply #533 on:** December 06, 2006, 03:54:21 AM

Nope. His presidency was much longer after the Civil War than Andrew Johnson's. The president we are talking about was in office before the Civil War.

Nick22 · **Reply #534 on:** December 06, 2006, 10:22:12 AM

I'm an idiot. John Tyler, the 10th president of the united States, who sided with the South after the Confederacy was formed and was elected to the Conferderate congress. It hit me after I posted My Johnson guess

. He tok office after the death of William Henry Harrison in April 1841.

Malte279 · **Reply #535 on:** December 06, 2006, 11:25:02 AM

Correct (about John Tyler, not the idot part

:). John Tyler was the first Vice President to take office after the death of a president and established the role of the Vice President as an actual sucessor of the president (Tyler had some quarrel with the Congress about this. He refused to open any letters adressed to John Tyler acting as president of the United States.
Other than establishing the role of the Vice President there is little remarkable to be said about his presidency.
Be my sucessor here and post the next question Nick

Nick22 · **Reply #536 on:** December 06, 2006, 11:31:27 AM

good one. What act of Congress became the main article of Impeachment against Andrew Johnson? There were 11 articles in all, and the were 3 attempts to impeach him, the third was sucessful.

Malte279 · **Reply #537 on:** December 06, 2006, 11:48:51 AM

The Tenure of Office Act, according to which:

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every person holding any civil office, to which he has been appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate ... shall be entitled to hold such office until a successor shall have been in like manner appointed and duly qualified

The Act had been passed in anticipation of Johnson's attempts to remove Edwin McMasters Stanton from office. Johnson claimed the act to be unconstitutional (and indeed the law was ruled to be unconstitutional, but only in 1926).
None of the three votes in the Senate during the second impeachment attempt (obviously the first attempt had been unsucessful) actually succeeded. The last vote however kept Johnson in office by a margin of one vote, making him pretty much of a lame duck.
To this day no US president was ever successfully impeached and removed from office, though it can be taken for granted that this would have been done in case of Nixon had he not resigned first, to be pardoned for everything by his sucessor.

Nick22 · **Reply #538 on:** December 06, 2006, 12:11:23 PM

Yes, in Nixon's case the only question would have been how many voted to convict, I can't imagine that he would have had less than 90 votes against him. I think The Ford pardon was a mistake...Nixon's midsdeeds dserved incarceration and dishonor. I doubt Bush will be impeached, although I think he deserves it, first for the Iraq war, second for the NSA wrietap and stripping of habesus corpus for detainees, and thirdly for the attempts to justify torture..Rumsfeld and Cheney are also liable to prosecution...

Malte279 · **Reply #539 on:** December 06, 2006, 12:47:40 PM

Unlikely as it may be we should at least not consider it impossible. Only if we believe it to be impossible it will be. It would take some guts however to speak up in favor of such action. It remains to be seen if somebody in the right position has that guts.
Anyway, was the answer the one you were looking for?