Packet 3: Bonus 12
In her article “Manifest [this concept],”Amy Kaplan argued that it was semantically connected to expansionist foreign policy in 19th-century America. For 10 points each:
[10m] Barbara Welter identified a “cult” of what concept, which white middle-class women were expected to embody along with piety, purity, and submissiveness?
ANSWER: domesticity [or True Womanhood; accept “Manifest Domesticity”; accept “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860”; prompt on womanhood]
[10h] The cult of domesticity shaped magazines like this Philadelphia “lady’s book” known for its fashion plates. The “Mother of Thanksgiving,” Sarah Josepha Hale, edited this most popular periodical in the antebellum US.
ANSWER: Godey’s Lady’s Book [or Godey’s Magazine and Lady’s Book]
[10e] Kaplan’s “Manifest Domesticity” cites the writings of Catharine, a home economics pioneer from this family. Abraham Lincoln supposedly called a bestselling novelist with this maiden name the woman “who started the war.”
ANSWER: Beecher [accept Catharine Beecher; accept Harriet Beecher Stowe]
<HA, American History> | NAFTA-Packet-3
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 18.60 | 93% | 74% | 19% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYU A | Habitat 67 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question) | Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos | Untitled Keyal Team | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Noah Sheidlower | Shipping Down from Ballston | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| The "C" Team | Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 83% | 83% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |