Question

Public outrage over this practice in New York City led to a 1788 riot during which John Jay was reportedly hit over the head with a rock. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this practice that inspired the passage of “bone bills” in several states, as introduced by the president of the American Chemical Society, John William Draper.
ANSWER: body snatching [accept equivalents like stealing corpses or digging up bodies; or cadaver research; prompt on grave robbing or stealing by asking “what objects were stolen?”]
[10h] In 1878, the body of an Ohio congressman with this surname was snatched by a medical school. A senator with this surname failed to become Indiana’s governor in 1876, partly because he wore gloves to protect against infection.
ANSWER: Harrison [accept John Scott Harrison; accept Benjamin Harrison]
[10e] Legislation was passed allowing schools such as the Winchester Medical School to use the cadavers of executed criminals, though it was burned down after John Brown raided this federal armory in Virginia.
ANSWER: Harpers Ferry
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Claremont BClaremont A0101020
Florida BValencia A001010
Florida AFlorida State A001010
UCF BUCF C0000
UCLAUCSD001010
Virginia Tech ADuke10101030
Wake ForestLiberty A001010
UNC BLiberty B001010
Virginia ASouth Carolina1001020
Liberty CUNC C0101020
William & MaryUNC D001010
Chicago AIllinois A10101030
Illinois BChicago D001010
Illinois CChicago C1001020
Indiana AIndiana B1001020
WashU BMissouri1001020
WashU AMissoui S&T1001020
CarletonMinnesota B001010
Iowa StateWisconsin A10101030
Winona StateWisconsin B1001020
UC Berkeley AUC Berkeley B1001020
UMass BostonBU001010
Harvard ABrandeis A1001020
Brandeis BHarvard B001010
Dartmouth ABrown A001010
MIT ATufts A001010
PurdueGeorgetown B001010
IowaGeorgetown A1001020
Northwestern ANotre Dame C0101020
Northwestern BNotre Dame B1001020
Stanford BNotre Dame A001010
ASUTAMU10101030
Texas ATexas B001010
Louisville AAlabama A1001020
Georgia Tech AGeorgia Tech C001010
Tennessee AVanderbilt A1001020
Georgia Tech DBruin A001010
Cambridge ACambridge E1001020
Cambridge BWarwick B001010
Cambridge CWarwick A001010
Cambridge DBristol0000
Oxford BDurham001010
NYU AColumbia B001010
Haverford AColumbia C1001020
Maryland AJohn Jay College001010
Johns Hopkins AVassar A1001020
Penn AMaryland B1001020
Yale ANYU B1001020
George Washington BPenn B001010
Rutgers AGeorge Washington A001010
Binghamton ACornell D0101020
RIT AESF A001010
RIT BCornell C0101020
LSEOxford C1001020
SheffieldImperial B001010
Southampton AOxford A0000
Southampton BManchester1001020
NYU CImperial A001010