Packet 2: Bonus 8
Because Castle Hill was taken, the victors of this battle instead fortified themselves at a site previously known as Redoubt Saint Michael. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this battle, after which the defeated Kiks.ádi (“kik-SAH-dee”) clan under Chief K’alyaan were forced to retreat in their namesake “survival march.”
ANSWER: Battle of Sitka
[10e] The Battle of Sitka was fought between native tribes and colonizers from this country. This country sold their territory of Alaska to America in what came to be known as “Seward’s Folly.”
ANSWER: Russia [or the Russian Empire or Rossíyskaya Imperiya]
[10m] Russian colonization in the Americas extended as far south as this former settlement in California, which was eventually sold after its sea otter fur-trading industry was depleted.
ANSWER: Fort Ross
<Cornell, American History> | I2. Prelims Tiebreaker - NYU A + NYU B + Case Western + Cornell (Tiebreaker Half 2)
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| 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |