2nd Semester History Final Review

Question 1

In the late nineteenth century, baseball did which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Evolve from a game played by amateurs to a sport played across the country.

Question 2

The National Association of Colored WOmen's Clubs was effective in improving the life of African Americans because it

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Focused its attention on community issues sush as public health

Question 3

The Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision

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Stated that legal segregation was acceptable under the "separate but equal"

Question 4

The Women's Christian Temperance Movement (WCTU) was the first national movement to

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Identify and fight against domestic violence

Question 5

By the early 1900s, why did many business leaders encourage their male workers to participate in sports?

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All of the above

Question 6

Which of the following sports was invented by the YMCA instructors in the 1890s?

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Basketball

Question 7

The growth of the YMCA in American cities resulted from

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efforts to promote a muscular Christianity for white-collar workers

Question 8

The notion of separate spheres in the late nineteenth century referred to the controversial idea and debate that

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men and women haddifferent natures

Question 9

Which of the following groups would have been least likely to support prohibition

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German immigrants

Question 10

What else did the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) do in addition to fighting for Temperance?

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All of the above

Question 11

In 1880s, the WCTU controversially threw its support behind the

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Prohibition Party

Question 12

Between 1880-1920, higher education for women was

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In the Northeast mostly at single-sex institutions

Question 13

Which of the following most directly resulted from the philosophy of social Darwinism?

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Eugenics laws

Question 14

Even though the WCTU did not accomplish its stated goal of prohibition, its legacy on women's roles included

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All of the above

Question 15

The most controversial sport of the late 1800s was

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college football

Question 16

What caused the growing emphasis on male masculinity?

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Urban Life and Work

Question 17

Which of the following athletic activities were elite women in their twenties least likely to engage in?

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Field Hockey

Question 18

In the late nineteenth century, social Darwinists such as William Graham Sumner, believed

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Millionaires were the fittest Americans

Question 19

All of the following demonstrated the increasing masculinization of American culture except

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The growth of moral reform movements

Question 20

Which region of the United States was most supportive of women's voting rights by 1900?

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West

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