Question

A monopoly of these vessels was struck down in the 1824 decision Gibbons v. Ogden. For 10 points each:
[10m] Robert Fulton created the first successful examples of what vessels, which a young Mark Twain piloted along the Mississippi River?
ANSWER: steamboats [accept steamships]
[10h] The deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history occurred when the steamboat Sultana exploded while carrying Union POWs home from this notorious Confederate prison in Georgia, overseen by Henry Wirz.
ANSWER: Andersonville Prison
[10e] The Sultana disaster was overshadowed in the press due to the killing of this man by John Wilkes Booth the day before.
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
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TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 FARSI @ Columbia12/08/2024Y1024.00100%90%50%