Southern bread riots - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

During one of these events, a president threw money from his pockets to dispel a crowd. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these events mostly led by women, including the pistol-brandishing Mary Jackson. These events took place after the Greyback became nearly worthless.

ANSWER: Southern bread riots [accept mobs, protests, or other equivalents in place of “riots”; prompt on riots or protests by asking “what resource is it named for?”]

[10e] The largest bread riots occurred in this city, which also housed the Tredegar Iron Works. Jefferson Davis governed from this city, which was the capital of the Confederate States of America for four years.

ANSWER: Richmond, Virginia

[10m] Inflation riots occurred at Chimborazo Hospital, which was evacuated after Robert E. Lee’s retreat during this campaign named for a city outside Richmond. During this campaign, Ambrose Burnside led a charge at the Battle of the Crater.

ANSWER: Siege of Petersburg [or Richmond-Petersburg Campaign]

<Claremont, American History>

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Florida	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	20%	60%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	7.00	70%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


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