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Question

Herman Melville described a Liverpool thug who engages in this activity in his semi-autobiographical work Redburn. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this practice of kidnapping people, or sometimes even corpses, to serve on a ship. This practice likely got its nickname from the destination of many of those sailors.

ANSWER: shanghaiing [or crimping]

[10h] Bars at this red-light district in San Francisco were infamous for shanghaiing. Early jazz was developed in this neighborhood’s Terrific Street.

ANSWER: Barbary Coast

[10e] Also active in the Barbary Coast were the Sydney Ducks, an Australian gang made up of immigrants who sought riches during this event. This event was sparked by a discovery at Sutter’s Mill.

ANSWER: California Gold Rush [or 1848 Gold Rush]

<Parameswaran, American History>

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Clark A	Clark B	10	10	20
Labour's Lost Lovers	Jeffrey and Dahmers	10	10	20
Triple Round Robin Lovers	Jason Lovers	10	10	20
Eugene o'Negging	A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	10	10	20
You, Me and the Big G	Heat-Oppressed Brains	10	10	20
BHSU	malcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1)	10	10	20
Charlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline	2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind	10	10	20
Nobodaddy but you	Michigan	10	10	20
Noli Me Tangerine	Chicago B	10	10	20
Oh the Missouri	Chicago A Minus Minus	10	10	20
purdoobie brothers	>:3	10	10	20
1.g4 Test Mixture	JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz	10	10	20
mnemonists	Let's Fighting Love	10	10	20
NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)	protobowling for soup	10	10	20
Sandmännchen im Helikopter	The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola	10	10	20
Parden the Interruption	boy's jitches (ft. DMA)	10	10	20
Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse	bruh	10	10	20
JJaryland	chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia	10	10	20
Duke	UNC B	10	10	20
Williams et al.	Cleo: 5, 7 movie	0	10	10
Tunks et al.	Houston Junior College	0	10	10
World's Fair Wiggle Walk	Riley et al.	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Free Agents	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	10	10	20
UNC A	UNC Hunny	10	10	20