Question
Answer the following about Senator Henry W. Blair’s namesake “bill” proposed to spend the growing federal surplus in the 1880s, for 10 points each.
[10m] The bill would have provided direct federal funding to what institutions whose “common” types were developed by Horace Mann in the 1830s?
ANSWER: public schools [or common schools]
[10e] To secure support from Southern Democrats, Blair added language institutionalizing a predecessor to what three-word doctrine that the Supreme Court established in Plessy v. Ferguson?
ANSWER: “separate but equal” [or “equal but separate”]
[10h] The bill was killed by House Speaker John Carlisle, a leader of what political faction that opposed the Fifteenth Amendment and aligned with the Redeemers?
ANSWER: Bourbon Democrats
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 88% | 13% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
Data
| Penn State | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Pitt | RIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |