Question
As part of this system, the Canadian doctor Alexander Milton Ross pretended to be a bird catcher to travel the American South and solicit “stockholders” who donated supplies. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this system in which “conductors” like Harriet Tubman helped enslaved people secretly escape to Canada.
ANSWER: Underground Railroad
[10m] In the 1970s, this Canadian city demolished the nearby village of Africville which had been settled by several generations of Black refugees. Africville didn’t receive aid from a 1917 explosion after the SS Mont-Blanc collided with the SS Imo in this city’s harbor.
ANSWER: Halifax [accept the Halifax Explosion]
[10h] James Douglas accepted Black settlers from the US to this future province in the Pioneer Committee. Edward Bulwer-Lytton selected Richard Moody to be Lieutenant-Governor of this province during the Fraser Gold Rush.
ANSWER: British Columbia [or the Colony of British Columbia; prompt on BC]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 83% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 18.00 | 100% | 50% | 30% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 22% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 25% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 44% | 44% |
Data
| Chicago A | Illinois C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Illinois D | Purdue C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WashU A | Iowa A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Notre Dame A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Northwestern B | Notre Dame B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Notre Dame C | Iowa B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| SIUE | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue B | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Illinois B | WashU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |