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Terms in this set (77)For which reason did Walter Camp of Yale and other coaches in the late nineteenth-century claim football make an especially worthwhile activity? discipline. Which technology challenged the dominance of painting within the art world in the nineteenth century? Camera. Which statement describes the significance of the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case Plessy v. Ferguson? It ruled that Jim Crow laws did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment as long as separate facilities were equal. Which political party sought to ban alcohol in the United States in the 1880s? prohibition party To which of the following religions or religious sects did most native-born Americans adhere during the early 1900s? Protestantism Which of these was the most popular team sport in the United States before the Civil War?
cricket Conservative ministers held an annual series of Bible conferences between 1876 and 1897 that originated which idea? Niagara Creed In what environmental group, formed around the turn of the twentieth century, did women play a leading role in their effort to save wild birds? National Audubon society What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton mean by "the solitude of self"? Men and women need equal protection What did Mark Twain, America's most famous fiction writer of the late nineteenth century, satirize? notation of progress Why was football a controversial sport when elite colleges in the United States began to sponsor teams in the 1880s? Football violence resulted in players growth Which strategy was key to families' upward mobility in the nineteenth century? limiting family growth Who wrote the influential book On the Origin of Species published in 1859? Charles Darwin Which statement describes the African American colleges founded in the United States during Reconstruction? they are usually coeducational What objections did critics raise against Social Darwinism and the views of William Graham Sumner? The argument was based on false analogy. Why did future president Theodore Roosevelt promote sports like boxing, weightlifting, and martial arts beginning in the 1890s? to preserve American civilization Which group did nineteenth-century showman P. T. Barnum proclaim was the key audience for his famous traveling circus? children Why did Charles Darwin, who coined the term "natural selection," disapprove of the word "evolution"? He believed it implied upward progress rather than random change. Which of the following outdoor activities became a recognized form of recreation by the turn of the century? camping Why did the rate of college attendance in the United States increase from 2 percent in the 1880s to 8 percent in 1920? Public universities expanded dramatically during this period. Why did Catholic traditionalists create a network of Catholic schools in the United States in the early twentieth century? To insulate Catholic children from the American pluralism Which president signed an act creating the National Park Service in 1916? Woodrow Wilson What was the impact of the Comstock Act of 1873? It had limited success in preventing the spread of contraceptives. Why did many American authors take up literary realism after the 1880s? o replace sentimentality in literature with facts Which course would have been a likely part of the curriculum at Harvard during the presidency of Charles W. Eliot (1869-1909)? French Which development stemmed from the popularity of Social Darwinism and eugenics in the early twentieth century? Restriction of immigration increased Who was the main figure responsible for building the environmental movement in the second half of the nineteenth century? John Muir Which organization was the main manifestation of the Social Gospel movement on street corners in American cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? salvation army which institution did Booker T. Washington found in 1881? The Tuskegee Institute What was a negative side effect of the state game laws that became more common in the late nineteenth century? They penalized the rural poor Until the 1870s, most amateur baseball players in the United States came from what groups? Clerks and white collars workers The ministers who formulated the Niagara Creed in the late nineteenth century reflected what faith tradition? Fundamentalism What goal led John Muir to found the Sierra Club in 1892? To promote the preservation and enjoyment of mountain regions. What was the primary focus of the National Association of Colored Women, formed in 1896? to build stronger communities What was the name of the club that was formed in 1912 and attracted feminist intellectuals, journalists, and labor organizers? Heterodoxy Club How did the department store change the relationship between family and consumer culture at the turn of the twentieth century? it made women the chief family shoppers What phrase was used for a popular advertising image depicting a beautiful athletic woman in outdoor settings? Gibson Girl Which innovation aided couples seeking to limit the size of their families in the nineteenth century? Vulcanized Rubber By 1900, scientists and ordinary Americans had accepted the belief of what theory? Evolution Through what means did the American public gain knowledge about the important scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century? A series of world's fairs Who was the charismatic leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union after 1879? Frances Willard The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was a Protestant effort in the second half of the nineteenth century to promote which of the following ideals? Muscular Christianity Which state was home to the first public women's college in 1885? Mississippi In the late nineteenth century, most club women sought to justify their work in political reform movements based on what ideal? maternalism Why did wealthier visitors to New York's the Catskill Mountains begin to develop gated communities in the late nineteenth century? To avoid associating with the working class What did women of the late nineteenth century gain by working on reform programs aimed at ending alcoholism, poverty, and other social and economic ills? A sense of their potential ability and influence Which public spaces were some of the sites targeted by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the late 1800s? Saloons Who was one of the most famous evangelical preachers at the turn of the century? Billy sunday Which act gave American presidents the power to create national monuments? Antiquities Act What made Acadia National Park in Maine unique in the United States in 1917 It was the first nation park east of Mississippi River In what part of the country did suffragists win three crucial victories in the late 1800s? The West The largest African American women's group arose within which church in 1900? The National Baptist Church How did national parks differ from national monuments in the early twentieth century? Logging was permitted in national forests. How was the Salvation Army able to succeed around the turn of the twentieth century? By borrowing techniques prominent in business at the time In contrast to many native-born Jews, most Yiddish-speaking Jews who arrived in the United States from Eastern Europe after the 1880s were poorer and more orthodox in their beliefs. Why was the leadership style of Booker T. Washington particularly well suited for the difficult era after Reconstruction? His avoidance of confrontation was a response to severe racial repression. Washington's style of leadership was based on avoiding confrontation with whites and cultivating patronage and private influence. He hoped that education, hard work, and respectability would erase white prejudice against African Americans. Why were sports like baseball and football becoming popular in the late nineteenth century in the United States? With industrialization, men lacked means to work with their muscles and independently and thus used sport as a substitute. Industrialization changed expectations in the workplace. Traditionally, the mark of a successful American man was economic independence: he was his own boss. Now, tens of thousands worked for other men in big companies — and in offices, rather than using their muscles. How could they develop toughness and strength? One answer was athletics. How does this image of a Christian mission in Japan in 1909 reflect a common characteristic of American missions around the turn of the twentieth century? Asia is the setting for the image. How did fundamentalist tactics around 1900 mimic the tactics used during the Second Great Awakening of the 1820s and 1830s? Effective use of revival meetings Like the Baptists and Methodists in the 1820s and 1830s, fundamentalists around 1900 made effective use of revival meetings to win over sinners. What did some critics warn against regarding women's colleges in the United States in the 1870s? College would unsex women. Intensive brain work, doctors warned, would unsex young women and drain energy from their ovaries, leading them to bear weak children later in life. What changed in the curriculum at public universities relative to the curriculum at private universities around 1900? Emphasis was placed on technical training. Public schools emphasized technical training, for instance in engineering or business at this time. Conversely, private schools led by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot (1869-1909) emphasized the liberal arts. Which virulently nativist group around the turn of the twentieth century expressed outrage at the existence of separate Catholic schools while demanding, at the same time, that all public school teachers be Protestants? American Protective Association Why were women's protest and reform work in the late 1800s and early 1900s significant? The foundation was laid for progressivism and modern women's rights. By engaging in selfless community service, women gained a new sense of self-worth and began pushing for equality, as they did before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is significant because it was the first park established outside the U.S. mainland. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was the first national park established outside the U.S. mainland, a year before Denali in Alaska. What statement can be made about woman suffrage based on this map? In general, states in the East adopted woman suffrage later than states in the western half of the nation. States in the West instituted woman suffrage first; the right to vote spread gradually east but did not reach large parts of the East until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. What did the early histories of baseball and football in the United States have in common? Both started as amateur sports before becoming professionalized by astute businessmen. Both baseball and football were sports played by amateurs, generally a company's labor force, before astute businessmen recognized those sports' value as spectator sports. President Theodore Roosevelt preserved which major national park in 1908? Grand Canyon Theodore Roosevelt used his powers as president to preserve 800,000 acres at Arizona's Grand Canyon. Which ethnic group dominated Catholic hierarchy in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Irish When immigrant Catholic Poles and Italians became numerous enough in the United States, they demanded their own bishops based on ethnic background. The Catholic hierarchy, dominated by Irishmen, felt that the integrity of the church itself was at stake. The demand for ethnic parishes implied local control of church property. With some strain, the Catholic Church managed to satisfy the diverse needs of the immigrant faithful In the early decades of the twentieth century, the largest number of Protestant missionaries served in which part of the world? Asia Who was the most famous American fiction writer at the turn of the century? Mark Twain Why did Yale's football coach, Walter Camp, insist on drill and precision in football practice in the late 1800s? To offer the perfect model for the competitive world of business his players would be joining Drawing on the workplace model of scientific management, Camp emphasized drill and precision. He and other coaches argued that football offered perfect training for the competitive world of business. Camp's methods succeeded; between 1883 and 1891, under Camp's direction, Yale scored 4,660 points; its opponents scored 92. Which company manufactured railcars that set the national standard for taste and elegance on long train trips? The Pullman Company Which state took the lead in applying state eugenics laws to its populations? California Journalist Ida B. Wells launched a one-woman campaign against lynching and demolished the myth that the practice was a response to interracial rape. Why did southern women organize the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in 1894? To celebrate the memory of the South's "lost cause" Why did business leaders favor the creation of national monuments over national parks around the turn of the twentieth century? Resources in national monuments could be used but those at parks could not. Why did many American business leaders begin to create employer-sponsored sports teams in the early twentieth century? 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