Packet 2: Bonus 15

This politician was mocked in a cartoon in which a copy of his “Mt. Gilead” speech sits above his supporter Joseph B. Foraker, who attempts to make a balloon labeled “sectional hatred” fly again. For 10 points each:
[10h] What loser in the 1880 and 1884 Republican National Conventions was nicknamed the “Ohio Icicle” due to his lack of aura in speeches?
ANSWER: John Sherman
[10e] While serving as a senator from Ohio, Sherman proposed an 1890 law of this type, which was expanded on in 1914 by the Clayton Act and whose enforcement led to the breakup of Standard Oil.
ANSWER: antitrust law [accept the Sherman Antitrust Act; accept the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914]
[10m] Sherman also names an 1890 law that expanded on this doubly-eponymous 1878 act, which required the creation of “Morgan” silver dollars.
ANSWER: Bland–Allison Act [accept the Grand Bland Plan of 1878]
<Virginia Tech, American History> | B. Prelims 2 - Northwestern A + Virginia Tech + Brown + Penn State

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaNorth Carolina010010E
Chicago AOhio State010010E
Columbia AUCF10101030HEM
Columbia BCornell10101030HEM
GeorgetownHarvard010010E
Georgia Tech CMichigan010010E
IndianaMIT0101020EM
Maryland APittsburgh010010E
Maryland BToronto A010010E
MinnesotaGeorgia Tech B010010E
NYU AStanford B010010E
Northwestern BJohns Hopkins010010E
Stanford ABruin10101030HEM
TexasSwarthmore10101030HEM
Toronto BIllinois B0101020EM
UC Berkeley ARutgers10101030HEM
UCLAPurdue0101020EM
VanderbiltIllinois A10101030HEM
VirginiaCambridge010010E
WaterlooNYU B010010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2017.50100%45%30%