Carl Sandburg - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This historian won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History for the second part of a biography divided into The Prairie Years and The War Years. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this historian and poet who wrote the six-volume biography Abraham Lincoln. Those books by this historian inspired Robert Sherwood’s play Abe Lincoln in Illinois.

ANSWER: Carl Sandburg [or Carl August Sandburg]

[10e] Sandburg devoted much of The War Years to the congressional plot against this Secretary of State under Lincoln, whose work to purchase Alaska was called his “Folly.”

ANSWER: William Seward [or William Henry Seward]

[10h] In an Atlantic review, Stephen Vincent Benét cited this politician as one of many “Congressmen, cranks, [and] soldiers” whom Sandburg depicted. The Birchard Letter addressed this politician’s arrest for violating General Order 38.

ANSWER: Clement Vallandigham (“vuh-LAN-dig-um”) [or Clement Laird Vallandigham]

<NS, American History>

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	17%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Illinois A	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Cambridge E	0	10	0	10
John Jay College	NYU A	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UC Berkeley B	UCSD	10	10	0	20
Case Western B	Case Western A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
UNC C	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Missouri S&T	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Indiana B	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Wisconsin A	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin B	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Georgetown B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame B	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Purdue	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
Alberta	UW A	10	10	0	20
UW B	UBC	0	10	0	10
Texas A	TAMU	10	10	0	20
ASU	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Durham	0	10	0	10
LSE	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
Sheffield	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
Penn B	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
NYU B	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Penn A	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Cornell D	ESF A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	UCLA	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Carnegie Mellon A	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon B	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Kenyon	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Duke	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10