WorksheetsPrettyGirls Q2
Total questions: 77
Worksheet time: 39mins
Select the TRUE statement regarding the burgeoning of sport as a liberating experience for women.
Select one:
Working-class women could not compete in any sports in the 1800s
Women could not participate in boxing in the 1800s,as it was considered to violent
Men such as Spalding and Pullman established the forms and parctices ai modern American women’s
In a gradual departure from the Antebellum Era, when their gender prescribed role of sedentary urban living undermined their physical health, women did begin to assume a more active role in physical recreation and sport.
John L. Sullivan, as a baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, was the first great American sports hero.
Select one:
False
True
To what sport was Senator Henry Cabot Lodge referring when he said, "the injuries incurred… are part of the price which the English speaking race has paid for being world conquerors."
Select one:
Boxing
Football
Lacrosse
Baseball
The New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club was organized in what year?
1870
1863
1845
1882
What is/was the America's Cup?select one
A horse racing competition, first held in 1821, between major horse breeders, mainly in the American South.
A regatta held in New Hampshire between Harvard and Yale, first held in 1851.
A yacht race between the USA and Britain, first staged in 1851 around the Isle of Wight in England, won by the USA.
A football game held in New Jersey between Princeton and Rutgers, first held in 1869.
What was the first intercollegiate sport to develop?
Select one:
Eye gouging
Lacrosse
Crew/rowing
Bowling
High School sports leagues and competitions started in the late 1800s.
Select one:
True
False
Fill in the Blank: Charles Peverly in his Book of American Pastimes (1866) wrote, "[t]he game of ______ has now become beyond question the leading feature of the out-door sports of the United States…"
Soccer
Football
Baseball
Rowing
The following President ordered the freeing of slaves in the South via the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863
Select one:
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore”Teddy” Roosevelt
G washington
What antebellum invention provided a means for sports and newspaper journalists to quickly report on the results of athletic contests for an increasingly sports-hungry public?
Select one:
Radio
Airplane
Telephone
Telegraph
The first intercollegiate football game was held in what year?
Select one:
1851, Yale vs Harvard football teams
1861, south carolina vs wespoint (army) football teams
1869, rutgers vs princeton football teams
1890,notre dame vs west point (army) football teams
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the namesake of Kellogg's Corn Flakes and other breakfast cereals, built the Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1903, a comprehensive facility for health, exercise, and medicine. Kellogg believed sex was unhealthy, and he invented Corn Flakes to prevent masturbation.
Select one:
Flase
True
Select the TRUE statement regarding the impact of
migrant groups on American culture.
Polish immigrants in the U.S. tended
to not suffer racial or religious
discrimination due to the similiarities
with WASP culture.
The Irish in America were a
relatively small immigrant group
and played little role in
influencing American culture.
Jews immigrating to the United
States typically quickly abandoned
their religion.
German Turner societies heavily
influenced American physical
education and fitness.
Surfing was a sport invented by African-Americans
Select one:
True
False
Woodrow Wilson, a pioneer of American football as player, coach, and sports journalist, captained Yale and became secretary of the rules committee, a position he held until his death in 1925.
Select one:
true
False
Hattie Leslie, a woman, gained a measure of fame as a boxer, obtained the heavyweight championship, and drew audiences to her matches as well as to her performances in vaudeville shows.
Select one:
True
False
A Native American football team from the Carlisle school defeated the University of Chicago and Harvard by outsmarting their supposedly superior opponents, all while mimicking the fancy accents of their elitist opponents.
Select one:
True
False
Select the FALSE statement regarding the development of sport forms specific to social class and ethnicity. Select one:
The Czechs organized
nationalistic clubs known as
Sokols based on the German
Turner model in Prague in 1862.
A Sokol was established in St.
Louis in 1865.
Thoroughbred and yacht owners
were of the upper class and
generally espoused Victorian
decorum and Protestant religiosity.
Polish Falcon clubs generally fit with established WASP culture due to their protestantism and
individualistic ethic.
Baseball players and fans often
came from the lower and middle
classes. Baseball became a
relatively egalitarian sport.
What two sports were invented in the late 1800s by
WASP religious leaders in Massachusetts?
Select one:
Lacrosse and Racquet ball
Basketball and Volleyball
Baseball and Football
Cricket and Soccer
Walking, or Pedestrianism, was one of the most popular sports of the 1800s.
Select one:
True
False
The Irish in the 1800s were often considered lower than black slaves. However, the Irish gained a measure of "whiteness" and entry to the mainstream culture as they proved their mettle in the boxing ring and on the baseball field.
Select one:
False
True
Select the FALSE statement about Horse Racing in the 1800s.
Select one:
John Cox Stevens served as
president or vice president of the
New York Jockey Club for more than22 years.
Horse racing was primarily a sport
for poor farmers, and was not
popular in urban areas.
Harness racing became increasingly
popular in the latter half of the
1800s.
The importation of the British
racehorse Messenger in the
post-Revolutionary years
produced a series of
championship horses.
Select the FALSE statement regarding changes
wrought in American culture by industrialization and
the need for urban and suburban recreational spaces
in the 1800s.
Select one:
Children commonly played on their own in streets, alleys, and vacant lots.
Play spaces such as settlement
houses, parks, and playgrounds
were controlled and supervised by
WASPs whose influence over
children might undermine parental
authority for immigrants and other
groups.
Settlement houses were mainly built by immigrant groups to assist
incoming immigrants.
John Dewey, a philosophy
professor at the University of
Chicago, was instrumental in the
movement to construct public
playgrounds, parks, and
recreational programs. Most
American cities modeled their
programs on the Chicago plan.
The development of an intercollegiate sporting culture in the U.S. began in the 1870s with what sports and what colleges? Choose the best answer.
Select one:
Notre Dame and West Point;
Football
Harvard and Yale; Rowing
Rutgers and Penn State; Football
Amherst and Dickinson; Baseball
In the 1870s and beyond, intercollegiate sporting culture was focused not on winning, but rather on teamwork and developing the players physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Select one:
True
False
Boston banned Sunday baseball games until 1920.
Select one:
True
Flase
John Dewey's theory is that one learns by experience, by participation in activities that might encompass leadership, teamwork, and self-sacrifice for the good of the whole.
Select one:
True
False
Select the FALSE statement regarding how the U.S. spread its culture to disparate groups around the world.
Select one:
Baseball is only played in the
U.S., but Basketball spread
worldwide through Protestant
missionaries.
Commodore Matthew Perry forced
the reclusive Japanese to open their ports in 1853, and shortly
afterwards, Japan sent students to be educated in American colleges, where they learned to play baseball.Baseball became a favorite of the
Japanese.
American teachers, missionaries,
and the YMCA promoted American games throughout Asia.
American colonial administrators in the Philippines used basketball in efforts to Americanize subject
peoples.
Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.
Select one:
True
False
What was the preeminent sport on college campuses during the Progress Era?
Select one:
Football
Baseball
Rowing
Cricket
In the late 1800s, Italian immigrants were perceived as nonwhites by American nativists.
Select one:
True
False
All of the following were sports for wealthy men in metropolitan areas, EXCEPT:
Select one:
Cockfights
Racquet sports
Yachting
Horse Racing
Theodore Roosevelt banned football in 1909 at the University of Virginia, stating that, "football is an ungentlemanly game."
Select one:
True
False
This famous settlement house opened in 1889 in Chicago offered sport and athletic programs for immigrants.
Select one:
Lilini house
Hull house
Sokol club
adel house
Whites rationalized defeats by African Americans, claiming that blacks' primitive natures, akin to animals, gave them innate anatomical advantages.
Select one:
True
False
Select the FALSE statement regarding Women's use of sport to gain greater independence and challenge gender boundaries.
Select one:
Women's suffrage was attained
nationally with the 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920.
Sport proved to be a highly visible
symbol of cultural change; sport
helped transform the image and
roles of women within one
generation in the late Progressive
Era.
The rise of acceptance of birth
control as a means of bettering
women's lives began in the
Progressive Era.
Women were largely forbidden from sport, politics, and society outside of the domestic realm, until after World War I1, when national attitudes began to change.
The NCAA began as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States in 1905.
Select one:
True
False
Jewish-American neighborhoods in the United States spawned a host of professional boxers that dethroned many of the Irish champions in the early 1900s.
Select one:
True
False
This man, born Friederich Wilhelm Mueller, began his career as a circus performer and acrobat before graduating to weightlifting stunts and exhibitions in vaudeville shows and theatrical tours. He organized the first bodybuilding competition in London in 1901 and opened a chain of gyms for bodybuilding.
Select one:
Eugen sandow
John D. Rockefeller
Bernarr Macfadden
Dr. John Harvey Kellog
As described by Allen Guttmann, the modernization of sport is exemplified by all of the following, except:
Select one:
bureaucratic governing bodies
regulating competitions, as winning assumed greater importance
sports becoming less
commercial and more about
physical fitness and individual
betterment
performances becoming quantified in the form of records that might allow for scientific measurement of human progress
professional athletes enhancing the probability of success (e.g. a
professional pitcher could easily
make the difference between
winning and losing)
Jewish-American neighborhoods in the United States spawned a host of professional boxers that dethroned many of the Irish champions in the early 1900s.
Select one:
True
False
What country or nation is usually considered the cradle of modern sport?
Select one:
France
England
Greece
U.S.A
For most Americans, baseballs seemed more appealing than cricket, since men played baseball at a swifter pace, and it gained popularity both among young men seeking athletic activities and among their supporters who came out to watch.
Select one:
True
False
The National League was created in 1876, and was organized and led by professional baseball players, not amateur players, for the first time. Later, club owners created the American League. Select one:
True
False
The American Civil War was fought in what year(s):
Select one:
1776
1812
1861-1865
1850-1870
Sporting Fraternities in the 1800s were notably associated with what ethnic group and what sport?
Select one:
Irish,Boxing
Swedish,Arm Wrestling
German,Gymnastics
Scottish, Highland Games
Select the FALSE statement regarding the
significance of technological advancements on sport
during the Progressive era.
Select one:
Experimentation with night baseball games started as early as 1883, only a few years after the invention of the electric light.
The first auto race took place in
Chicago in 1918, sponsored by the Illini newspaper, which offered a $1,000 prize.
Boxing films appeared in 1894 only a few years after the invention of motion pictures.
The Progressive Era, with its
quest for human and societal
improvement, spawned new
technologies that affected
sporting practices, and this was
the beginning of an increasingly
close relationship between sport
and technology.
Select the FALSE statement about Progressive reformers.
Select one:
Progressive reformers often
employed sport in a variety of
programs to educate and assimilate immigrants and address perceived social ills.
Progressive reformers attempted
to address problems of attitudes
about winning and gaining
wealth, as well as corruption and
other perceived problems in the
excesses of the Gilded Age.
Progressive reformers were mainlyIrish catholic immigrants who were attempting to change society from the violent and exploitative WASP culture.
Progressive reformers attempted to improve the lives of the burgeoning urban population, often targeting the growing number of immigrant newcomers to America to assist with
assimilation.
Hawaiian swimmers formed the backbone of the U.S. Olympic team from 1912 through the 1920s.
Select one:
True
False
The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in 1904, giving rise to standardized international rules for "Association" Football, or "Assoc." Football, or "Soccer". Select one:
True
False
Select the FALSE statement regarding the late
1800s.
Select one:
In 1882, 50 percent of the children
in Chicago died before the age of
five.
By 1890, 80 percent of New
Yorkers were foreigners or
children of immigrants.
Factory owners and businessmen
typically ensured workers had
access to workplace safety,
sufficient pay, benefits, and time off.
Corbett defeated Sullivan in the first gloved bout for a heavyweight
championship in boxing in 1892.
Select the TRUE statement regarding the
development of commercialized and professional
sports.
Select one:
The first major professional baseball
league was the American league,
organized in 1876.
The first major baseball leagues
were run by players, not by
capitalistic non-player owners, and
were amateur in nature.
The first major organization of
owners and administrators,
employing baseball players as mere
employees, was the creation of the
National Association of Base Ball
Players in 1858.
Professional baseball teams in
the late 1800s mainly existed on
the East Coast. There was no
team in Chicago until 1902.
Who founded the New York Yacht Club, was awarded a trophy by Queen Victoria, and was President or Vice President of various other upper class sporting clubs in New York?
Select one:
G washington
Abraham lincoln
Henry Clay
John Cox Stevens
Select the FALSE statement regarding the
transformation of the modern Olympic Games from a peace movement to a nationalistic enterprise
Select one:
The modern olympics were
created by Pierre de Coubertin,
a French nobleman, with the first
Olympics held at Athens,
Greece, in 1896.
The 1908 Olympic games, held in
London, England, at the height of
the British Empire, featured many
American athletes that harbored
pro-American and anti-British views, particularly Irish-Americans. American flag bearer Ralph Rose refused to lower the American flag to honor the British king in the opening parade.
Women had equal rights in all events in the first several Olympic games.
The 1904 Olympic games, held in
St. Louis, Missouri, concurrent with the World's Fair, featured human zoos of "primitive" peoples.
In the late 1800s, American educators adopted European gymnastics systems to improve the fitness levels of both male and female students.
Select one:
True
False
Hawaii was annexed by the United States after a brief war between the government of the United States and the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Select one:
True
False
Fill in the Blank: In college sports, the use of paid professional coaches marked a greater emphasis on ______, which became a characteristic trait of American culture.
Select one:
Teamwork
Rules
Winning
Capitalism
The growth of professional baseball in the early 1900s provided opportunities for the best players to achieve social mobility.select one
True
False
The heavyweight boxing championship victory by African American boxer Jack Johnson over Jim Jeffries in 1908 led to race riots where dozens of people, mainly celebrating black citizens, were killed or injured by angry white citizens across the United States.
Select one:
True
False
James Gordon Bennet, Jr., exiled to France for his vulgar behavior, led the New York Yacht Club, introduced the upper class sports of Polo and Foxhunting to the US, promoted Pedestrianism in the US, supported the first intercollegiate track meet in the US, and ran an upper class gambling den in New England.
Select one:
True
False
The Chicago Bears started in Decatur, Illinois, and were a company team of employees (the Staley Starch Company team).
Select one:
False
True
Who was the first African American professional baseball player in a major league?
Select one:
Honus wagner
Alfred J. Reach
Jack Johnson
Moses Fleetwood Walker
Jim Thorpe was an African-American baseball player who was the best in his league in 1912.
Select one:
True
False
The sporting fraternity spurred the growth of boxing, billiards, pedestrianism, and horse racing, and infused betting into its sporting culture.
Select one:
True
false
Stanley Hall's recapitulation theory asserted that societies, like individual human beings, pass through evolutionary stages evident in their styles of play.
Select one:
True
False
The Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896 permitted the legal segregation of African Americans from white society.
Select one:
True
False
True or False? The first intercollegiate athletic competition was sponsored by a railroad company to promote its resort at Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.
Select one:
True
false
By the 1890s, rural Southern blacks had begun their exodus to Northern cities in search of a better life, and between 1914 and 1919 five hundred thousand blacks traveled to the North in a movement known as the Great Migration.
Select one:
True
false
In the early 1900s, Asians, particularly those of Chinese or Japanese origin, faced exclusion by law, as their migration to the United States was forbidden.
Select one:
True
false
Boxing, horse racing, wrestling, swimming, hunting, and fishing continued to be pursued to varying degrees during the civil war.
Select one:
True
False
The U.S. conquered and built the Panama canal in the early 20th century.
Select one:
True
False
What is the relationship of sport to the bachelor subculture and concepts of masculinity? Choose the most correct answer.
Select one:
Men are naturally violent and
competitive and eager to prove their masculinity.
By the mid-nineteenth century, 80
percent of young men between the ages of 25 and 35 remained single.
Men compensated for losing
their independence to capitalism
and industrialism by turning to
the homosocial environment of
the sporting world.
Saloons were popular places for
religious protestants during the time period.
Select the FALSE statement regarding African Americans' quest for acceptance in American society.
Select one:
Booker T. Washington, a leading
spokesperson among freed
blacks in the decades after the
Civil War, advocated an
accommodationist stance with
Whites, preaching responsible
behavior, the development of a
strong work ethic, procurement
of vocational skills for
employment, and patience
relative to social acceptance and
civil rights.
W.E.B. DuBois, a free northern
black, earned a Ph.D. from Harvard and argued a "talented tenth" of African Americans (like himself) could compete equally with whites if given an equal chance. He helped found the NAACP in 1909.
All-black schools and colleges were mainly founded by racist whites in the South to keep blacks out of quality education, which was reserved to the whites.
African Americans gained the rights to citizenship by virtue of the 15th Amendment in 1870.
Select the FALSE statement regarding the role of sports entrepreneurs and the media in the promotion of sport.
Select one:
Irish immigrant Richard Kyle Fox, a journalist and media magnate,
promoted boxing, creating the
system of weight classes and
bejeweled belts to the champions of each category.
Henry Chadwick, a journalist and
media entrepreneur, promoted
baseball, established the box core, batting average, and suggested new rules to the game.
Albert Pope, a manufacturer of
bicycles, promoted the sport of
cycling through magazines and
cycling clubs, and he organized the first cycling club, in Boston, in 1878.
Albert G. Spalding was a famous
New York baseball player who
eventually owned the New York
Yankees and started a sports
manufacturing business
centered in New York.
The first intercollegiate athletic contest was held in what year?
Select one:
1813, Harvard vs. Dartmouth horse racing teams
1890, Illinois State University vs.
Purdue football teams
1869, Rutgers vs. Princeton
football teams
1852, Yale vs. Harvard rowing teams
Sport Historians Allen Guttmann and George Kirsch
articulated key characteristics of the nature of modern sport, including all of the below, except:
Select one:
rationalism
bureaucratization
quantification
ritualism
Select the FALSE statement regarding the relationship between urbanization and sporting culture
Select one:
Particular sport forms, such as
billiards, might be played both in
the parlors of the wealthy and in
working-class saloons.
Boxing matches drew spectators
mainly from the lower classes.
Sport sometimes masked the
growing development of distinct
social classes.
Cities fostered the growth of sport,
and technology sped its pace.
