Packet 9: Bonus 18

This man’s anti-Federalist writings included accusing Alexander Hamilton of embezzlement and exposing his affair with Maria Reynolds. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this man whose publication of the pamphlet The Prospect Before Us led to his nine-month imprisonment.
ANSWER: James T. Callender [or James Thomson Callender]
[10e] Following Thomas Jefferson’s refusal to appoint him as Postmaster of Richmond, Callender became the first person to publicly write that Jefferson had fathered children with this enslaved woman.
ANSWER: Sally Hemings [accept Sarah Hemings]
[10m] Callender later drowned in the James River during his involvement in one of these events named for Harry Croswell. Reactions to the removal of Lewis Morris by governor William Cosby led to one of these events whose participants included Andrew Hamilton.
ANSWER: libel trials [or libel cases; prompt on trials or court cases by asking “what issue did the trial concern?”] (The second case is the John Peter Zenger libel trial.)
<Editors, American History> | R. Playoffs 9 (Editors 9)

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GeorgetownUCF010010E
HarvardIndiana10101030HEM
Illinois AGeorgia Tech C010010E
Johns HopkinsMichigan010010E
NYU ANorthwestern A010010E
North CarolinaChicago B010010E
Ohio StateColumbia B010010E
PurdueCornell010010E
RutgersGeorgia Tech A1010020HE
Stanford AUC Berkeley A1010020HE
TexasMIT010010E
UC Berkeley BToronto A1010020HE
UCLAPittsburgh0101020EM
VirginiaBruin1010020HE
Virginia TechMaryland A010010E
WashUBritish Columbia1010020HE
WaterlooSwarthmore1010020HE

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Main Site2026-04-17✓1815.00100%11%39%