Game 69, August, Quiz 2

[Glorybound]

Answers due by 6pm central, Wednesday, August 18th.

1….Why did Frederick Douglass refuse to join John Brown in the raid, when asked to do so by Brown, in 1859?

2….What was the date that John Brown raided Harpers Ferry?

3…During the night of the 17th a company of US Marines arrived at Harper's Ferry, commanded by Captain R.E. Lee, and a lieutenant. Who was the lieutenant?


4…From the time Brown's raid started to his surrender, how much time elapsed?



5…John Brown was hanged on what date?

 

[hoosier]

1. Douglass believed the raid would be suicidal.

2. October 16, 1859

3. J. E. B. Stuart

4. 36 hours

5. December 2, 1859

 

[Glorybound]

Game 69, August, 2010

1….Why did Frederick Douglass refuse to join John Brown in the raid, when asked to do so by Brown, in 1859?

Douglass thought it was a suicide mission, that it was a "perfect steel trap".

2….What was the date that John Brown raided Harpers Ferry?
October 16th, 1859

3…During the night of the 17th a company of US Marines arrived at Harper's Ferry, commanded by Captain R.E. Lee, and a lieutenant. Who was the lieutenant?

The one and only J.E.B. Stuart

4…From the time Brown's raid started to the surrender of Brown, how much time elapsed?

Approx 36 hours.

5…John Brown was hanged on what date?

December 2, 1859