10-18-2021

[Trivia Master]

Please fill in the blanks:

At the start of the war, only __[ insert State]__ accorded its black citizens full Civil rights. Massachusetts, Maine, New Hamphire, Vermont, and Rhode Island allowed African Americans - a total of 7 percent of the Northern population - to vote on an equal basis with whites. In New York, black men who owed at least __[insert sum]__ worth of property could vote, a requirement not prescribed for white voters. In Ohio, African Americans could vote if __[insert condition]__

credit: @FarawayFriend

 

[hughes]

Rhode Island
$250
posted bond of $300

 

[DBF]

only Massachusetts; owned at least $250; could vote if their ancestry was more than half white
The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference, by Margaret E. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, Paul Finkelman · 2009 (Link)

 

[bayouace]

1. Connecticut
2. $250
3. Swore an oath they were at least 50% White

 

[hughes]

CORRECTION: the state is Vermont

 

[stuart1861]

Massachusetts, 250 dollars, their ancestry was more than half white

 

[JFW22]

At the start of the war, only Vermont accorded its black citizens full Civil rights. Massachusetts, Maine, New Hamphire, Vermont, and Rhode Island allowed African Americans - a total of 7 percent of the Northern population - to vote on an equal basis with whites. In New York, black men who owed at least $250 worth of property could vote, a requirement not prescribed for white voters. In Ohio, African Americans could vote if anybody that will take the responsibility of swearing that he is more than half-white, shall vote.

Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_in_the_American_Civil_War
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timel...s#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEngermanSokoloff20058-9-7
3.

Black voting power in pre-Civil War Ohio helped elect a governor - and president: Van Gosse

In the 1860 presidential election, thousands of Black Ohioans voted for Abraham Lincoln, regardless of their complexions. As African American lawyer John Mercer Langston later remarked, “On the Lake Shore and Reserve ... anybody that will take the responsibility of swearing that he is more than...

www.cleveland.com

this one is the toughest so far, I am positive about answers 2 & 3 but couldn't find a definitive answer to #1 but it was the first state to abolish slavery and allowed voting.

 

[kholland]

Massachusetts
$250
ancestry was more than half white

 

[WJC]

Please fill in the blanks:

At the start of the war, only __[ insert State]__ accorded its black citizens full Civil rights. Massachusetts, Maine, New Hamphire, Vermont, and Rhode Island allowed African Americans - a total of 7 percent of the Northern population - to vote on an equal basis with whites. In New York, black men who owed at least __[insert sum]__ worth of property could vote, a requirement not prescribed for white voters. In Ohio, African Americans could vote if __[insert condition]__

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Massachusetts;
$250.00;
Their ancestry was more than half White.
Source: Margaret F. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, Paul Finkelman, Editors, The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 217.

 

[JOHN42768]

1) New York
2) $250.00
3) tax paying qualifications

 

[streetwiseprof]

1. Massachusetts
2. $250
3. Be less than one-half African American. [Persons "of a race nearer white than mulatto . .. should partake in the privilege of rights" because the court was "unwilling to extend the disabilities of the statue [i.e., limiting voting to white citizens] further than the letter requires."]

 

[danny]

Race, race and more race

Edit - Danny, love the family picture, but can't give you credit for a correct answer.

hoosier

 

[sarladaise]

Massachusetts
owned at least 250 Dollars
their ancestry was more than half white

 

[hoosier]

I'll take a guess at the first one and say Connecticut, since it's the only New England state not mentioned in the following sentence.

For the second part of the question, my answer is $250.

And for the third part of the question, my answer is they posted a $500 bond.

 

[JOHN42768]

CORRECTION: Delete New York #1 changing to Vermont, but even that is questionable.
source: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vermont-abolished-slavery/

 

[Pollaco]

State-Vermont
Sum-$250.00 property worth
Condition-50% White blood

 

[ErnieMac]

__[ insert State]__ Massachusetts
__[insert sum]__ $250
__[insert condition]__ They were more than 1/2 white

 

[ami]

Answers:

1) Massachusetts
2) $ 250
3) they could vote if their ancestry was more than half white
Source:

The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference / ed. by Margaret E. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman, page 217

20 1) Corinth, MS
2 a) Major General Earl Van Dorn CSA
2 b) Major General William Rosecrans USA

Edit - The paragraph at the top of the indicated page in the indicated source does, indeed, state that only Massachusetts accorded its black citizens full civil rights. Apparently this book was published before it became de rigeur to capitalize Black when referring to people.

Clearly some players were confused as to specifically what is meant by "full civil rights," and unfortunately the source does not elaborate on that point. I can't say what civil right or rights Massachusetts allowed that no other state did.

Because of the confusion, I am going to disregard the first part of the question. The other two parts were more specific, so players' responses will be scored on the basis of the second and third parts only.

hoosier