6) Van Buren, Tyler, Pierce, Fillmore and Buchanan
7) Stones River / Murfreesboro
8) George A. Atzerodt
9) John J. Crittenden
10) Kites
__________________ It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
6. Abraham Lincoln, in 1861, was the first U.S. president to be inaugurated while five former presidents were still alive. Which five were they?
Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan
7. The Round Forest, also known as Hell’s Half Acre, was a strong defensive position on the field of what battle?
Stones River
8. John Wilkes Booth’s plan for April 14, 1865 called for the assassination of not only Abraham Lincoln but Vice President Andrew Johnson as well. Who was given the assignment of killing Johnson?
George Atzerodt
9. What U.S. Senator had one son who became a Union major general and another son who became a Confederate major general?
John Crittenden
10. (Two point question) The Union conducted a type of aerial psychological warfare by dropping copies of Lincoln’s Amnesty Proclamation behind Southern lines. What devices were used to carry the copies over the lines?
Balloons INCORRECT
__________________ Great-Great Grand Nephew of George H. Pfau, 4th NJ Vol Infantry
6. Abraham Lincoln, in 1861, was the first U.S. president to be inaugurated while five former presidents were still alive. Which five were they?
Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan.
7. The Round Forest, also known as Hell’s Half Acre, was a strong defensive position on the field of what battle?
Battle of Stones River.
8. John Wilkes Booth’s plan for April 14, 1865 called for the assassination of not only Abraham Lincoln but Vice President Andrew Johnson as well. Who was given the assignment of killing Johnson?
George Atzerodt.
9. What U.S. Senator had one son who became a Union major general and another son who became a Confederate major general?
John Crittenden.
10. The Union conducted a type of aerial psychological warfare by dropping copies of Lincoln’s Amnesty Proclamation behind Southern lines. What devices were used to carry the copies over the lines?
6- Martin Van Buren. Franklin Pierce, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, & James Buchanan.
7- Round Forest- Stones River.
8- The German expatriate George Atzerodt, who immediately abandoned his assignment from Booth.
9- Kentucky's John Crittenden who tried so desparately to arrange an accord between the sections after Lincoln's election and the secessions.
10- By balloon, can't figure any other way that makes sense, but guess i'll find out soon enough. INCORRECT
__________________ 'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
Looks like question #10 was the tough one this week.
Sarladaise, I never used the quick reply button myself. I don't know what to tell you. Your post came through just fine, anyway.
Here are the answers to the questions for Week 2.
6. The five former presidents living at the time of Lincoln's 1861 inauguration were Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan. The next presidential inauguration to take place with five former presidents living was Bill Clinton’s in 1993.
7. The Round Forest was at Stones River (Murfreesboro)
8. The assignment was given to George Atzerodt, who never carried out the attack on Johnson.
9. Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky was the father of the two major generals on opposite sides.
10. The copies were transported by the use of kites, a technique that had been used experimentally in the Napoleonic Wars.
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