2nd Semester History

In what job were the greatest number of women employed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

Maids/Servants

Who was the head football coach for forty years at the University of Chicago who aimed to 'Christianize football'?

Amos Alonzo Stagg

What branch of pseudoscience applied the theories of Charles Darwin to politics and business?

Social Darwinism

What organization, founded in Britain and spread to the US, aimed to promote Christianity in athletics?

YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association)

What was the movement to stop Christianity in the US from becoming too 'feminized'?

Muscular Christianity

What was the nickname of the Harvard-Yale football game in 1894?

The Bloodbath at Hampden Court

What question did the Civil War settle regarding states' rights?

Can states secede from the union? (No)

Who wrote, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'?

George Santayana

Who was the first US president to be impeached?

Andrew Johnson

Which amendment abolished slavery?

13th Amendment

What 1862 act created state universities and increased access to higher education?

College Land Grant Act

Who was Mr. Zuggi's best friend in high school?

William

What was the restoration of white supremacy in the former Confederate states called?

Redemption

What is the myth that the CSA fought the Civil War for noble reasons like states' rights?

Lost Cause Myth

What is the title of W.E.B. Du Bois' famous book about segregation in the South?

Souls of Black Folk

What period between 1865 and 1877 rebuilt the defeated CSA and re-admitted it to the US?

Reconstruction

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

Booker T. Washington

According to some historians, what accomplishment truly 'united the states'?

Railroads

Who founded US Steel?

Andrew Carnegie

Name two reasons why Ford's Model T was so popular.

Affordable, reliable

What is the term for the growth of cities as the US population shifted from rural areas?

Urbanization

What was Booker T. Washington's book called?

Up From Slavery

What did George Santayana write?

The Life of Reason

What was the countermovement to organized religion and spiritualism in the late 19th century called?

Free Thought Movement

What kind of Christianity dominated the American religious landscape in the late 19th century?

Protestant Christianity

According to your history teacher, in what pattern does American religious history move?

Cycles

When is there usually a surge in religious activity in a country's history?

When times are bad (crisis/upheaval/war/uncertainty).

Who was known as 'The Great Agnostic'?

Robert Ingersoll

What event had the largest impact on American Religion?

Darwin's Theory of Evolution (Evolution Through Natural Selection)