Underground Railroad - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

As part of this system, the Canadian doctor Alexander Milton Ross pretended to be a bird catcher to travel the American South and solicit “stockholders” who donated supplies. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this system in which “conductors” like Harriet Tubman helped enslaved people secretly escape to Canada.

ANSWER: Underground Railroad

[10m] In the 1970s, this Canadian city demolished the nearby village of Africville which had been settled by several generations of Black refugees. Africville didn’t receive aid from a 1917 explosion after the SS Mont-Blanc collided with the SS Imo in this city’s harbor.

ANSWER: Halifax [accept the Halifax Explosion]

[10h] James Douglas accepted Black settlers from the US to this future province in the Pioneer Committee. Edward Bulwer-Lytton selected Richard Moody to be Lieutenant-Governor of this province during the Fraser Gold Rush.

ANSWER: British Columbia [or the Colony of British Columbia; prompt on BC]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	18.89	100%	44%	44%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	23.33	100%	83%	50%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%

Data


UCLA A	Claremont C	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	UCLA D	10	10	10	30
UCLA E	Claremont B	10	0	0	10
UCLA C	UCSD	10	10	10	30
USC	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois C	10	10	10	30
Illinois D	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Iowa A	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	Illinois A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern B	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame C	Iowa B	10	0	0	10
SIUE	Purdue A	10	0	0	10
Purdue B	Northwestern A	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	WashU B	10	0	10	20
Binghamton A	Cornell E	10	10	10	30
Binghamton C	Binghamton B	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Cornell A	10	10	10	30
Cornell C	Cornell D	10	10	0	20
ESF	Cornell F	10	10	0	20
U of Rochester A	Penn State	10	0	0	10
RIT A	Cornell G	10	0	10	20
Syracuse	RIT B	10	10	10	30
RIT C	U of Rochester B	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Columbia J	10	0	0	10
Fordham A	Rutgers A	10	0	0	10
Penn B	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Penn A	NYU A	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Princeton A	10	0	0	10
Rowan A	Lehigh B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers B	Bard A	10	0	0	10
Miami B	Jefferson County Scholars	10	0	0	10
CWRU C	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	West Virginia A	10	0	0	10
Michigan State A	Miami C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	West Virginia B	10	0	0	10
Ohio State B	CWRU A	10	10	0	20
Miami A	Ohio State C	10	0	0	10
Alberta	UW Envy	10	10	10	30
UW Chastity	Arizona State A	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	UW Wrath	10	10	0	20
UW Gluttony	UBC A	10	0	10	20
UBC B	UW Greed	10	10	10	30
UW Pride	UW Lust	10	10	0	20
Emory Oxford	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech E	Auburn C	10	0	0	10
Auburn A	Emory A	10	10	0	20
Georgia A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
Southern	Georgia Tech D	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	Tennessee B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Liberty B	Appalachian State A	10	0	0	10
Appalachian State B	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
James Madison A	UNC A	10	0	0	10
NC State	James Madison B	10	0	0	10
VCU	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
Tusculum	Duke A	10	0	0	10
UNC B	Virginia	10	0	0	10
UNC C	UNC D	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	William & Mary	10	10	0	20
Michigan D	Michigan B	10	10	10	30