US History Trivia

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

My bad your right it was  California, but I thought he commanded two confederates, and one union general, and they would have been confederate:armistead, garnett, union: hancock.

What significant role did Armistead's uncle play in the War of 1812?

I didn't think about Garnett. I was thinking of John Reynolds, though he may not have served with them in CA but instead Mexico, which is probably what I was thinking of.

[cpeeks]

Ya I am almost positive that it was Garnett, Armistead, and Hancock. I beleive Reynolds and Longstreet were good friends.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ya I am almost positive that it was Garnett, Armistead, and Hancock. I beleive Reynolds and Longstreet were good friends.

Longstreet and Grant were as well. Reynolds and Hancock were close, though Armistead and Hancock were closer still.

[cpeeks]

Ya I knew they were because of all the accounts ive heard, I believe the one that Armistead was saying he was sorry that Hancock and been hit, not that he was sorry he left the Union.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ya I knew they were because of all the accounts ive heard, I believe the one that Armistead was saying he was sorry that Hancock and been hit, not that he was sorry he left the Union.

Yes, he swore that if he ever raised a hand against Hancock, may god stike him (meaning Armistead) dead. Well his brigade charged right into Hancock's Corps in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg and in fact penetrated his lines driving back, I beleive, the 69th Pennsylvania of Webb's Brigade (2nd Division, 2nd Corps) as well as capuring a cannon. Then one of the other Pennsylvania Regiments of Webb's brigade (69th, 71th, 72th and 106th Pennsylvania), maybe the 71st but I can't remember, charged forward, a member of which shot Armistead and killed or captured all of Armistead's men that managed to break the federal lines. This point just before Armistead is shot, is what is meant by the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy", not the charge itself.

Longstreet was right, no 15,000 men ever arrayed could take that ridge.

I don't think it was one of Armistead's men that hit Hancock's saddle sending splinters and a nail from the saddle into Hancock's leg. At the point he was hit, Armistead's brigade was comming up the rear of Picket's line with Kemper and Garnett in front.

[cpeeks]

Lol I see someones watched Gettysburg a few times, I love that movie. Longstreet: No 15,000 men ever made can take that ridge, its a distance of more than a mile when the troops come out they will be under fire from all over the field, and those are Hancocks men, and they have the stonewall like we did at Fredricksburg. Lee: We do our duty, we do what we must do.

[J. J.]

Question:  Which presidents had been Secretary of War?

Monroe, Taft (William Howard, not Alphonso)

Which nine cities can claim to have served as the Capital City of the United States?

1. Philadelphia
2. Trenton, NJ?
3. York, PA?
4. NYC, NY
5. Washington, DC
6. ...  no idea

Lancaster, PA, Trenton, Princeton, NJ and Annapolis, MD?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Question:  Which presidents had been Secretary of War?

Monroe, Taft (William Howard, not Alphonso)

Which nine cities can claim to have served as the Capital City of the United States?

1. Philadelphia
2. Trenton, NJ?
3. York, PA?
4. NYC, NY
5. Washington, DC
6. ...  no idea

Lancaster, PA, Trenton, Princeton, NJ and Annapolis, MD?

Still one to go since you repeated Trenton.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Lol I see someones watched Gettysburg a few times, I love that movie. Longstreet: No 15,000 men ever made can take that ridge, its a distance of more than a mile when the troops come out they will be under fire from all over the field, and those are Hancocks men, and they have the stonewall like we did at Fredricksburg. Lee: We do our duty, we do what we must do.

No, I actually read in a book long before watching the movie.

Question:  Which presidents had been Secretary of War?

Monroe, Taft (William Howard, not Alphonso)

Which nine cities can claim to have served as the Capital City of the United States?

1. Philadelphia
2. Trenton, NJ?
3. York, PA?
4. NYC, NY
5. Washington, DC
6. ...  no idea

Lancaster, PA, Trenton, Princeton, NJ and Annapolis, MD?

Still one to go since you repeated Trenton.

Baltimore?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Lol I see someones watched Gettysburg a few times, I love that movie. Longstreet: No 15,000 men ever made can take that ridge, its a distance of more than a mile when the troops come out they will be under fire from all over the field, and those are Hancocks men, and they have the stonewall like we did at Fredricksburg. Lee: We do our duty, we do what we must do.

No, I actually read in a book long before watching the movie.

Question:  Which presidents had been Secretary of War?

Monroe, Taft (William Howard, not Alphonso)

Which nine cities can claim to have served as the Capital City of the United States?

1. Philadelphia
2. Trenton, NJ?
3. York, PA?
4. NYC, NY
5. Washington, DC
6. ...  no idea

Lancaster, PA, Trenton, Princeton, NJ and Annapolis, MD?

Still one to go since you repeated Trenton.

Baltimore?

Yup.  By the way, we've had eleven capitols, since three different buildings in Philadelphia have served as the meeting place of Congress.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Who did Teddy Roosevelt support for President in 1884?

[cpeeks]

Oh I loved the killer angels ive read it twice have you ever read the other books in the trilogy.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Which states used, as the first, the gas chamber?

[J. J.]

Which states used, as the first, the gas chamber?

Nevada, I thought it might have been California until I checked.

[Bo]

Who did Teddy Roosevelt support for President in 1884?

Grover Cleveland.

Who was the only person in U.S. history who could have (undisputably) chosen the next President, and in what year?

[The Mikado]

Richard Nixon, 1974.

What was Robert Moses' vision for New York City, and how did he attempt to realize it?

[Bo]

Richard Nixon, 1974.

What was Robert Moses' vision for New York City, and how did he attempt to realize it?

Technically, your answer is correct. I was thinking more about David Davis, 1876, though.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What was Robert Moses' vision for New York City, and how did he attempt to realize it?

His vision was of a city friendly to the automobile, and he tried to achieve it by bulldozing existing neighborhoods to create freeways and neglecting public transportation.

[Bo]

Who was the U.S. President with the greatest average unemployment %wise, since 1945?

[cpeeks]

Reagan

[Bo]

Reagan

Wrong.

[cpeeks]

Reagan was actually in the army in WW2, but he was unfit for combat so he made propaganda films, and Bush was in the air national guard.

[patrick1]

Carter was also in the US Navy- he was a Midshipman at that.

For average unemployment my guess would be Ike- although Im probably buying into the halcyon days myth.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Who was the U.S. President with the greatest average unemployment %wise, since 1945?

Carter?

And the six Presidents who did not serve in the military...Reagan, GW Bush, Fillmore, Polk, Madison, and Carter.

All of those were in the military at some point. Well, Fillmore didn't serve until after he left office.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Oh I loved the killer angels ive read it twice have you ever read the other books in the trilogy.

That wasn't what I was referring to by "read it in a book", but yeah I have read all three at least twice.