Samuel Ringgold Ward blamed the quality of decades of the United States’ relations with this country on a certain type of “hater” in Washington, D.C. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country to which Benjamin F. Whidden led the first US legation in 1862. Later, US interest in this country grew when Frank A. Vanderlip tried to gain control of this country’s national bank.
ANSWER: Haiti [or Republic of Haiti, République d’Haïti, or Repiblik Ayiti]
[10e] The threat that the Haitian Revolution and this general posed to slavery delayed its recognition. Ironically, proslavery authors like George Fitzhugh praised this general’s labor policies.
ANSWER: Toussaint L’Ouverture [or François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture]
[10m] The violence of the Revolution forced The North Star, based in this city, to carefully frame its biography of L’Ouverture. This city hosted a women’s rights convention two weeks after the one at nearby Seneca Falls.
ANSWER: Rochester, New York
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