For the following puzzle, convert the Letter answer to it's sequence number in the Alphabet, e.g.(A=1, B=2, C=3,... Z=26)
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Question a)
Consider the following quotation and determine the speaker:
"Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so many of the territory as they inhabit." ---January 12, 1848
A) President Jefferson Davis
B) General Robert E. Lee
C) General Ulysses S. Grant
D) President Abraham Lincoln
E) Major General Sterling Price
Question b)
After the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12–13 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation for the states to call up their militia and provide 75,000 troops to the Federal government to suppress the rebellion. He sent specific requests to all states, including this State and Governor.
The Governor responds:
"Sir: Your dispatch of the 15th instant, making a call on (this State) for four regiments of men for immediate service, as been received. There can be, I apprehend, no doubt that the men are intended to form a part of the President's army to make war upon the people of the seceded states. Your requisition, in my judgment, is illegal, unconstitutional, and revolutionary in its object, inhuman, and diabolical and cannot be complied with. Not one man will the State of (this State) furnish to carry on any unholy crusade."
F) Ohio - William Dennison
G) Illinois - John Wood
H) Wisconsin - Louis Powell Harvey
I) Iowa - Samuel J. Kirkwood
J) Missouri - Claiborne Fox Jackson
NOTE: If the number is 2 digits, use the Digital Root
Question c)
This patriot graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1857. He entered the US Army where he served until April 1861. He resigned his commission and joined the Confederacy. He eventually reached the rank of Major General by the end of the war. In 1884 he was elected Governor of (this State).
K) Thomas Stonewall Jackson - Virginia
L) William Tecumseh Sherman - Missouri
M) John Sappington Marmaduke - Missouri
N) Claudius Wistar Sears - Mississippi
NOTE: If the number is 2 digits, use the Additive Persistence
Question d)
In 1862, Rebel Troops from the 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment were sent to Island 10 in the Mississippi River near Cairo, Illinois. Their mission was to disrupt supplies headed to Union Troops in the South. After weeks of tenacious fighting, they were forced to surrender. About 1,200 Confederate soldiers, many severely wounded, were sent to Camp Randall where they were held as prisoners of war. About 120 died and were put in a plot called Confederate Rest in Forest Hill Cemetery. It's the Northernmost Confederate burial ground in the country. A few hundred yards away is the Union burial grounds. Confederate Rest is located in what Northern State Capitol?
O) Des Moines, Iowa
P) Lansing, Michigan
Q) Madison, Wisconsin
R) Jefferson City, Missouri
S) Springfield, Illinois
NOTE: If the number is 2 digits, use the Digital Root
Question Y)
Y? Why did I choose some of the these people? One is my 3rd Great Grandfather, and one is my 1st Cousin 4x removed. Determine the first initial of my 3rd Great Grandfather's middle name. As a hint, they are related to each other by marriage.
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