Question

During this year’s “Great Demonstration” in New York, orators recited songs and poems in French, Italian, and German. Craft workers nicknamed for this year spread the Louisville Platform to combat the rise of a political movement responsible for electoral violence on Bloody Monday. This is the first year covered in David Potter’s The Impending Crisis. An author’s (10[1])claim that territorial concessions finalized in this year “will poison us” bolstered the (-5[1])argument of the “Spot” Resolutions. (10[3]-5[1])Barnburners (10[2]-5[1])left the Democratic Party (-5[2])in this year over opposition (-5[1])to a treaty negotiated by (10[1])Nicholas Trist. (10[1])A popular sovereignty (10[1])proponent from Michigan lost this year’s presidential election to a war hero nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready.” (-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, in what year (-5[1])did the (10[1])Treaty of Guadalupe (10[1])Hidalgo (10[1])end the Mexican–American War? (10[3])■END■ (10[5]0[4])

ANSWER: 1848 [prompt on ’48 or the Forty-Eighters] (Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that “Mexico will poison us.”)
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James StevensonMichiganGeorgia Tech5610
Lexi TermanRutgersClaremont Colleges69-5
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina AChicago A7410
Cooper RohColumbia AWUSTL A74-5
Jakob MyersIndianaStanford7410
Andrew KelleyKentuckyCornell B7410
Jason HongBrownBerkeley A7510
Liam StarnesChicago CNorth Carolina B7510
Sky LiToronto ANorthwestern75-5
Joel MilesMinnesota ACornell A79-5
Ryan SunBerkeley BVanderbilt79-5
Ashish SubramanianDukeYale B84-5
Joseph ChambersVirginiaPenn8910
Matthew SiffYale AIowa State9110
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaChicago D9410
Mitchell ShaddenTexasWaterloo111-5
Adrian WongOttawaColumbia B11310
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYUMaryland117-5
Henry CafaroChicago BPurdue11910
Justin WytmarIllinoisJohns Hopkins12210
Jeffrey FungHarvardMcGill12310
Dean Ah NowClaremont CollegesRutgers12710
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AColumbia A12710
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BTruman State12710
Caleb KendrickMarylandNYU1280
Raymond WangCornell AMinnesota A12810
Nikhil ChellamNorthwesternToronto A12810
Jaik HavlickArizona StateToronto B12810
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltBerkeley B12810
Neal JoshiWUSTL BFlorida12810
Graham CopeFloridaWUSTL B1280
Jared HeWaterlooTexas1280
Will OrrYale BDuke1280