Port Royal Experiment - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Missionaries derisively called “Gideonites” proselytized as part of this scheme despite the War Department repeatedly conscripting their targets. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this scheme put in place soon after the Union Army occupied the Sea Islands with a goal of paying newly-emancipated slaves to harvest cotton on abandoned plantations.

ANSWER: Port Royal Experiment

[10e] The experiment began after a Union general with this surname requested teachers to train the newly-emancipated. An unrelated Union general with this surname led a scorched-earth “March to the Sea” at the end of the war.

ANSWER: Sherman [accept William Tecumseh Sherman; accept Thomas West Sherman]

[10m] On the Sea Islands, Laura Matilda Towne founded one of the first schools for freedmen, which she named after this religious leader whose “Holy Experiment” of a mid-Atlantic colony was founded in 1681.

ANSWER: William Penn [accept Penn School or Penn Center]

<GP, American History>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Brandeis A	Amherst	0	10	10	20
Harvard	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Clark Wilson	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	Bowdoin C	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Boston College A	Yale	0	10	10	20
BU	Clark House	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech C	0	10	10	20
WashU	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Truman	Squidward Community College	10	10	10	30
Boston College B	MIT	0	10	0	10
In the Mood for Buzz	Social credit go vroom	10	10	0	20
Madmen and Specialists	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	10	10	0	20
bingy academy	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	0	10	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	0	10	10	20
Old and Young	The cult of SGA	0	10	10	20
Pitt	Maryland	0	10	0	10
Penn State	RIT	0	10	0	10
UF C	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UCF A	USF	0	10	10	20
UF A	Valencia	10	10	0	20
UF B	Florida Tech	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Past	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford	10	10	0	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Basic	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Cloze	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	0	10
Innovation Academy A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Innovation Academy C	0	10	0	10
Milton	Lambert	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	Johns Creek	0	10	10	20
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Illinois Blue	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Illinois Orange	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	0	10
Southampton	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	LSE A	0	10	0	10
LSE B	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
Warwick C	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
ALCU	SGV Ventures	0	10	10	20
Anderson et al.	U[C]SD	0	10	0	10
Claremont	Jason et al.	0	10	10	20