American history game

Malte279 · **Reply #820 on:** February 06, 2011, 05:25:14 AM

Which US president had to watch his son getting killed in a train accident right before his eyes?

Nick22 · **Reply #821 on:** February 06, 2011, 03:30:56 PM

Theodore Roosevelt.

Malte279 · **Reply #822 on:** February 07, 2011, 03:01:58 AM

Nope, sure enough he did have some rather harsh times as well, like when his mother and his wife died just a few hours apart, or when his youngest son was shot down as a pilot in WW1 (his oldest son later died of health complications in WW2 shortly after he had been the only general to land with the first attack wave in Normandy, but Roosevelt had been dead for about 25 years by that time), but he didn't loose a son in a train accident.

Nick22 · **Reply #823 on:** February 10, 2011, 01:33:32 AM

Warren G Harding?

Malte279 · **Reply #824 on:** February 10, 2011, 05:57:32 AM

Nope. The president in question was however one of those who draw usually limited attention. He was president in 19th century.

Nick22 · **Reply #825 on:** February 10, 2011, 04:20:10 PM

Was it Hayes? Rutherford B Hayes

Malte279 · **Reply #826 on:** February 11, 2011, 05:43:20 PM

Nope, I think as family matters are concerned the wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, Lucy was kind of famous. As a fierce oponent of slavery and supporter of the temperence movement she has sometimes been depicted as kind of a harridan, but I think that those claims need to be taken with a grain of salt. In 19th century there seems to have been kind of a sad tendency to depict first ladies (if they were written about at all) in a negative light. She was the first ever first lady to get a college promotion... anyway, I'm getting off topic here. While not all of their children reached adult age I'm not aware of any one of them being killed in a train accident before the eyes of their parents (correct me if I'm mistaken).

Nick22 · **Reply #827 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:15:13 AM

Was it James Garfield then?

Malte279 · **Reply #828 on:** February 12, 2011, 05:19:51 AM

Nope, the president we are talking of was not assassinated, nor did he die in office for any other reason (though for a son of Lincoln it was a close call, but he was saved by Edwin Booth (brother of John Wilkes) from being killed by a train). Maybe you can find the solutiono by googling?

Nick22 · **Reply #829 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:39:41 PM

Ah Frankin Pierce..his son Benjamin was killed in an accident

Malte279 · **Reply #830 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:45:16 PM

Aye, your turn Nick.

Nick22 · **Reply #831 on:** February 13, 2011, 10:08:57 PM

Alright let me think of something.

Nick22 · **Reply #832 on:** February 22, 2011, 12:23:54 AM

In order to appear on currency , how many years must a president be deceased?

Malte279 · **Reply #833 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:58:03 AM

Two years I think?

Nick22 · **Reply #834 on:** February 22, 2011, 11:03:17 AM

That is correct Malte. So presidents like Carter and GHW Bush would have to die by 2014 in order for them to be put on the dollar coin in 2016. Your Turn.

Malte279 · **Reply #835 on:** February 22, 2011, 11:13:15 AM

^ In which case my highest ambition as a US president wouldn't be to end up on currency as soon as possible. I'm wondering who or which institution decides which president is to end up on currency and which should not (ignoring such quarter collections that would depict any president who has been dead long enough)?

Which US general during the US Civil war occupied a town that bore his own name and what was remarkeable about the southern defenders of this town?

Nick22 · **Reply #836 on:** February 22, 2011, 12:06:53 PM

well the act that created the Presidential dollar coins, had on them all decased presuiidents and required 2 years between a presidents death before they could be put on the coin.when it started Reagan had just passed away and Ford was still living. Both Carter and Bush 41 were born in 1924 so they will turn 87 this year. They will be the next ones added, unless some calmaity strikes clinto or George W before then, which I hope obviously is not the case.

Malte279 · **Reply #837 on:** March 17, 2011, 06:31:22 PM

The defenders of the town had named themselves after a character from the American revolution and the town you are looking for (which bears the name of the Colonel (sorry for promoting him to the rank of a general which he did not have before) who occupied it) is located in Georgia (not a major town though. Today according to Wikipedia it has some 25000 inhabitants).

Malte279 · **Reply #838 on:** April 10, 2013, 04:43:19 AM

Reviving an old game since the last question was unreasonably difficult.
The answer to this question:

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Which US general during the US Civil war occupied a town that bore his own name and what was remarkeable about the southern defenders of this town?

Was that in 1864 federal colonel (yes I made a mistake there, the man was a colonel rather than a general) Oscar LaGrange occupied the town of LaGrange in Georgia. The local defenders were a volunteer women's auxiliary group who called themselves Nancy Harts after a heroine of the revolutionary war. They ultimately negotiated a surrender so there was no outright battle between the Nancy Harts and the federal army (the later by far outnumbering the defenders).

Here is the next question:
A couple of American states have been independent nations for a longer (e.g. Texas) or shorter (e.g. California) while. Before either of these there was however another government body which for a short time acted as a de facto autonomous nation on the territory of the US (though that sounds bigger than it probably was). It didn't last very long and its borders were not identical with those of the (differently named) state which would later absorb the territory of that short lived nation. What was the name of that lost state and when did it exist?

The Chronicler · **Reply #839 on:** April 12, 2013, 09:10:17 PM

I really needed to think about this one, since there seemed to be multiple possible answers, but I think I've got the one you're thinking of.

The State of Franklin was created in 1784 out of what was then part of North Carolina. It became a de facto independent republic after failing to gain support for statehood, but was reabsorbed into North Carolina after just four years. Today, that region is the eastern end of Tennessee.