Great Mississippi Flood - 2023 BHSU Online

Question

During this disaster, evacuees to the town of Greenville were denied food and water and instead forced to work at gunpoint. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this natural disaster, the worst of its kind in U.S. history. It displaced over 600,000 people, most of them Black farmers.

ANSWER: Great Mississippi Flood [or the Mississippi Flood of 1927; accept answers including a flood of the Mississippi River and 1927; prompt on partial answers]

[10m] This then-cabinet member was put in charge of relief efforts, and formed the Colored Advisory Committee led by Robert Moton to burnish his reputation among African-Americans.

ANSWER: Herbert Hoover

[10e] Hoover immediately broke all of his promises to Moton after being elected president, a bad move since Moton was the influential principal of this university founded by Booker T. Washington.

ANSWER: Tuskegee Institute [or Tuskegee University]

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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	4	25.00	100%	75%	75%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	25.00	100%	75%	75%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

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The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	Cornell B-	10	10	10	30
Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	10	10	10	30
Hutto Hippos	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	10	20
Hutto Hippos	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	10	20
Hutto Hippos	Cornell C++	10	10	10	30
Hutto Hippos	Cornell C++	10	10	10	30
Hutto Hippos	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	0	10	10
Hutto Hippos	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	0	10	10
Hutto Hippos	Cornell C++	10	0	10	20
Hutto Hippos	Cornell C++	10	0	10	20