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Lesson 6 Reforms of the Late 1800s . Lesson 7 Arts and Entertainment
Lesson 6 Reforms of the Late 1800s . Lesson 7 Arts and Entertainment
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US History Detective Book 2
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1
What important recreational activity came out of the YMCA effort to create an indoor sport?
Basketball
Volleyball
Swimming
Wrestling
2
Who wrote about life on the Mississippi River?
Stpehen Crane
Tom Sawyer
Bret Harte
Samuel Clemens
3
What was different about athletics in the decades right after the Civil War?
Some athletes became paid professionals
Sports involved women for the first time
Sports became less and less popular
Football became the country's most popular sport
4
Why was the book
How the Other Half Lives
revolutionary?
It was written by a president
It was published in paperback
It included photographs of slum conditions
It showed how the wealthy lived extravagant lives
5
The "settlement house movement" attempted to better the lives of...
immigrants
women
the middle-class
church members
6
Movement where church members were asked to improve conditions in American society
the "Y"
City Beautiful
Social Gospel
WCTU
7
Which of these items was emphasized when discussing the "T" in the WCTU?
church
alcohol and tobacco
tenements
meat
8
Mary Cassatt was noted for her paintings that showed...
the connection between a mother and child
wealthy and famous Americans
the gritty reality of city living
the everyday lives of rural Americans
9
With effort to improve health and sanitation, communicable diseases and death rates rose
True
False
10
Hot Dogs, sometimes called Coney Dogs, became an American favorite after the Civil War.
True
False
11
Which American artist was perhaps the most popular in the late 1800s?
John Singer Sargent
Winslow Homer
Mary Cassatt
James Whistler
12
Jane Addams is closely associated with which of these?
Hull House
Salvation Army
Social Gospel movement
YWCA
13
John L. Sullivan made his mark as a...
western miner
portrait painter
famous vaudeville act
boxer from Boston
14
Football was the most popular sport in America after the Civil War
False
True
15
What was
The Red Badge of Courage
?
the most famous book by Mark Twain
a popular vaudeville act
the prize won by jockey's at the Kentucky Derby
a realistic novel about the Civil War
