Q 01/05

Which region became Michigan's consolation prize for giving up the Toledo Strip to Ohio?

A) The Door Peninsula

B) The Upper Peninsula

C) The Apostle Islands

D) The Minnesota Arrowhead

Answer · why

B) The Upper Peninsula

The Upper Peninsula was dismissed at the time as worthless wilderness, and a Michigan convention first rejected the swap. A mining boom began there wi...

Q 02/05

Michigan and Ohio nearly came to blows in 1835 over a river-mouth port on which of the Great Lakes?

A) Lake Erie

B) Lake Huron

C) Lake Ontario

D) Lake Superior

Answer · why

A) Lake Erie

Lake Erie mattered because its western end offered the shortest overland route to the frontiers farther west. Canal builders saw Toledo's harbor as th...

Q 03/05

The Toledo War's only blood was drawn when a Michigan deputy sheriff suffered which injury during an arrest in Toledo?

A) A broken jaw

B) A gunshot wound

C) A stab wound

D) A sabre cut

Answer · why

C) A stab wound

A stab wound was the war's entire casualty list: Deputy Joseph Wood recovered, and his attacker escaped into Ohio, whose governor refused to hand him ...

Q 04/05

The Toledo War is sometimes named as the root of the Michigan Wolverines' football feud with which Ohio team?

A) The Buckeyes

B) The Bearcats

C) The Bobcats

D) The Rockets

Answer · why

A) The Buckeyes

The Buckeyes of Ohio State first faced Michigan in 1897, six decades after the border dispute, and many followers simply call the yearly meeting The G...

Q 05/05

Which metal, struck on the Keweenaw in the 1840s, turned Michigan's Toledo War consolation prize into a mining bonanza?

A) Gold

B) Platinum

C) Copper

D) Lead

Answer · why

C) Copper

Copper set off the first major mining boom of its kind in the United States, in land Michiganders had written off as worthless wilderness.