2. Who was the first man hanged for treason in the United states?

3. Who was the first man in the United States to steal a million dollars?

4. Who was President for one day?

5. Who said, "I would rather be right than be President"?

6. What leader of his Party could not be nominated for president?

7. Who said, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."?

8. Who was the man who went around the world in 80 days?

9. Who said, "Don't give up the ship."?

10. What religious order was founded by "Mother Ann?"

Short Answer: 10. The Shakers. 9. Captain James Lawrence. 8. George F. Train. 7. Colonel Putnam 6. Alexander Hamilton. 5. Henry Clay. 4. David Rice Atchinson. 3. Colonel Samuel Swartwout. .2. John Brown. 1. Not patrick Henry.

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About the Answers:

1. Far from being defying, there is evidence that our hero, Patrick Henry, humbly begged for pardon from all who might be offended for his rashness, and vowed his undying loyalty to King George III.

2. Initially, the South had much sympathy in the North and antipathy ran high against John Brown's actions, bit hanging John Brown, made him a martyr.

3. Swartwout's deed became a strong argument against Van Buren's Independent Treasury. Whigs cited his theft as an example of being able to trust government appointees with the country's money.

4. When William Henry Harrison refused to take office on a Sunday, President Pro Tempore, David Rice Atchinson had the doubious honor of being president for a day.

5. Henry Clay obviously wanted to be president, he ran for that office five times.

6. Hamilton's affair with Marie\a Reynolds and his subsequent paying of blackmail to her husband, James Reynolds, was not the only reason Hamilton could not be elected. His economic views were too well known.

7. Colonel Putnam's orders to hold the fire until the whites of the enemies eyes could be seen had two excellent reasons. First of all, the English muskets were anything but accurate and secondly, the Americans were short on ammunition at Breed's Hill. Although the battle was lost, it was said that the colonists would love to have sold the British more hills for the same price.

8. George F. Train helped Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in their quest for woman's suffrage by financing their speaking tour across Kansas and appearing with them each night in his full evening clothes. He was also the man who went around the world in 80 days, in 1870.

9. Captain Lawrence issued the stirring order just before dying aboard the U.S.S. Chesapeake, on June 1, 1813. He lost the battle and his ship, but his words survived. During a victorious engagement against the British flotilla on Lake Erie, Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry, was aboard a brig named for Lawrence. He also carried a nine foot flag bearing Lawrence's stirring words that have since become the U. S. Navy's motto.

10. The Shakers were the largest of the communistic societies in America by 1840. They had 18 settlements from Maine to Kentucky. Their founder, known as Mother Ann, had been a cook in an infirmary in Manchester, England. She could neither read nor write. Her beliefs afforded her much criticism as well as jail time, but she was not bitter. Her love for God, she believed, would extend to man in love for one another. The Shaker belief in celibacy, unlike that of the Mormans', limited their capacity to grow.