Question
Missionaries derisively called “Gideonites” proselytized as part of this scheme despite the War Department repeatedly conscripting their targets. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this scheme put in place soon after the Union Army occupied the Sea Islands with a goal of paying newly-emancipated slaves to harvest cotton on abandoned plantations.
ANSWER: Port Royal Experiment
[10e] The experiment began after a Union general with this surname requested teachers to train the newly-emancipated. An unrelated Union general with this surname led a scorched-earth “March to the Sea” at the end of the war.
ANSWER: Sherman [accept William Tecumseh Sherman; accept Thomas West Sherman]
[10m] On the Sea Islands, Laura Matilda Towne founded one of the first schools for freedmen, which she named after this religious leader whose “Holy Experiment” of a mid-Atlantic colony was founded in 1681.
ANSWER: William Penn [accept Penn School or Penn Center]
<GP, American History>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Pitt | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |