gold standard - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A party that favored this policy nominated the presidential ticket with one of the oldest combined ages, consisting of 79-year-old John M. Palmer and 73-year-old Simon Bolivar Buckner. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this policy in the nickname of the only third party endorsed by The New York Times. Alton B. Parker secured the Democratic presidential nomination in 1904 through a telegram endorsing this policy.

ANSWER: gold standard [or gold bullion standard or gold bullion standard; or Gold Democrats]

[10m] While Palmer and Buckner defected from the Democratic Party in 1896, this politician left to form the Silver Republicans. This politician names an amendment that forbade annexing Cuba and was superseded by the Platt Amendment.

ANSWER: Henry M. Teller [or Henry Moore Teller; or Teller Amendment]

[10e] Teller’s defection failed to stop the victory of this president in 1896, who started the Spanish-American War and was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz (“CHOL-gosh”) in 1901.

ANSWER: William McKinley

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	9.00	80%	0%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
UCLA	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Carleton	0	0	10	10
Winona State	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Brandeis A	10	0	10	20
Bristol	Oxford C	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Chicago C	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Missoui S&T	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
Wisconsin A	Wisconsin B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis B	BU	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Harvard B	0	0	10	10
UMass Boston	Brown A	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	LSE	0	0	0	0
Cambridge E	Imperial A	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Durham	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Sheffield	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
UCSD	UC Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Florida State A	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
Florida B	UCF B	0	0	10	10
UCF C	Florida A	0	0	0	0
UNC C	Duke	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
William & Mary	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
South Carolina	UNC B	10	10	10	30
Virginia A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Wake Forest	0	0	10	10
Alberta	UBC	0	10	10	20
UW A	UW B	0	0	10	10
TAMU	ASU	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
Vassar A	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
John Jay College	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Penn A	Penn B	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
Cornell D	RIT A	0	0	10	10
ESF A	RIT B	0	0	0	0