- Oh, jeez, there was a bunch. Off the top of my head, I’d say the transcontinental railroad authorization, the land-grant colleges act, the banning of slavery in the District of Columbia, and ultimately of course the 13th Amendment, which banned slavery throughout the country.
252: wasn’t the Homestead Act one of them? Seems that passed about 1862.
The Big Three that I was thinking about were: transcontinental railroad, Morrill Act [land-grant colleges], and the Homestead Act.
Oh, and Dred Scott was decided at The Old Courthouse [Federal] in St Louis.
This one sounds awfully familiar, and I’m certain it was a president’s mother. Was it FDR’s?
Michael Nesmith’s?
President? Monkee? It’s all good.
Wait! I think that’s it! Michael Nesmith’s mother.
- Correct
Assuming “Michael Nesmith’s” refers to his mother you are correct.
Anchors aweigh…
- The U.S. Naval Academy wasn’t established until the year ____; before that, midshipmen were trained entirely at sea.
- This Civil War hero was the first American officer ever given the rank of admiral.
- The victor of the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, he originally hailed from Vermont.
- This admiral won the Battle of Midway during WW2.
- This Chief of Naval Operations committed suicide after questions were raised about the medals he was entitled to wear.
- This Civil War hero was the first American officer ever given the rank of admiral.
David Farragut - The victor of the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, he originally hailed from Vermont.
George Dewey - This admiral won the Battle of Midway during WW2.
Chester Nimitz
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I’m thinking it’s 1854. IIRC it was after the incident where the captain of one of the trainee vessels hanged a midshipman for mutiny, with only a field court-martial. (The Somers or Somerset Incident, I think it’s known as.)
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Mike Boorda. I don’t recall his rank at the time of his death.
The questions were about a Medal of Honor he’d been awarded while he was still enlisted, and it came out that it seemed to have been the result of someone in his chain of command pushing to make him look better to subsequent promotion boards when it was known he was going to go mustang.
While he was obviously complicit in the fraud (at the very least he’d agreed to let it continue) I really think that the lion’s share of the blame for the medal inflation should have been going to his superiors, at the time, who manufactured the medal citation.
- Correct.
- Correct. The first, and only, “Admiral of the Navy.”
- Well, he was the top admiral in the Pacific at the time, but the USN commander on the scene was another guy. That’s who I’m thinking of.
- You’re right about the Somers, but incorrect as to the date.
- Correct as to his name. It wasn’t the Medal of Honor, though, but another medal.
Thanks for the link. That was very interesting. I knew the nickname “Rock of Chickamauga” but nothing about the man.
With all due respect to the OP, this thread would be a lot better if participants had to supply links to back up their questions. It would give readers all kinds of interesting and educational material.
Then that would be another thread, wouldn’t it? As it happens, I’m a big fan of Gen. Thomas and am glad he’s getting more attention nowadays. But I’m afraid that changing the thread rule as you suggest would lead to folks asking new questions inspired by what they just read, rather than relying on their own knowledge. As I wrote earlier, this isn’t a test of Googling or research skills, but of what we all know. May I respectfully suggest you just jot down a note for later research if you’d like to learn more about a historical topic which arises here?
In any event, thanks for your feedback.
Turning to the Air Force…
- This man is the only person ever to hold five-star rank in two armed services.
- The Air Force Academy’s mascot is this animal.
- The plane which, in various incarnations, flew 24/7/365 throughout the Cold War to conduct the U.S. retaliatory response to any overwhelming first strike, was codenamed __________ ________.
- This Air Force general ran for vice president in 1968 but lost.
- The Air Force accidentally bombed the embassy of what country during the NATO air war against Serbia in the late 1990s?
- China
Spruance.
- Curtis LeMay
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This man is the only person ever to hold five-star rank in two armed services.
"Hap" Arnold Army Air Force during WWII, and then the Air Force itself after it split off? -
The Air Force Academy’s mascot is this animal.
Eagle -
The Air Force accidentally bombed the embassy of what country during the NATO air war against Serbia in the late 1990s?
China