2nd Semester History

1.     In what job were the greatest number of women employed in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries? – Answer: Maids/Servants

2.     Who was the head football coach for forty years at the University of Chicago whose mission was to “Christianize football”? – Answer: Amos Alonzo Stagg

3.     What was the name of the branch of pseudoscience that attempted to apply the theories of Charles Darwin to the fields of politics and business? – Answer: Social Darwinism

4.     What was the organization, founded in Britain and spread to the US, whose goal was to promote Christianity in athletics? – Answer: YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association)

5.     What was the name of the overall movement to stop Christianity in the US from becoming too “feminized”? – Answer: Muscular Christianity

6.     What was the nickname of the Harvard-Yale football game in 1894? – Answer: The Bloodbath at Hampden Court

7.     What was one of the ‘questions’ of American history that the Civil War decided and settled? – Answer: Can states secede from the union? (No)

8.     Who wrote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”? – Answer: George Santayana

9.     Who was the first US president to be impeached? – Answer: Andrew Johnson

10.  Which amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery? – Answer: 13^th Amendment

11.  What 1862 congressional act created a system of state universities, giving more Americans access to higher education? – Answer: College Land Grant Act

12.  Who was Mr. Zuggi’s best friend in high school? – Answer: William

13.  What was the restoration of white supremacy in the states of the former Confederate called? – Answer: Redemption

14.  What was the name of the powerful and enduring myth that the CSA fought the Civil War for heroic and noble reasons, like states’ rights and freedom – Answer: Lost Cause Myth

15.  What was the title of the W.E.B. Du Bois’ famous book about the segregation in the South? – Answer: Souls of Black Folk

16.  What was the period called between 1865 and 1877 that rebuilt the defeated CSA and re-admit it back into the US? – Answer: Reconstruction

17.  Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama? – Answer: Booker T. Washington

18.  According to some historians, what engineered accomplishment truly “united the states”? – Answer: Railroads

19.  Who founded US Steel? – Answer: Andrew Carnegie

20.  Name two reasons why Ford’s Model T was so popular – Answer: affordable, reliable

21.  What was the growth of cities called as the US population shifted from rural areas? – Answer: Urbanization

22.  What was Booker T. Washington’s book called? Answer: Up From Slavery

23.  What did George Santayana write? – Answer: The Life of Reason

24.  What was the name of the countermovement to organized religion and spiritualism in the late 19^th century called? – Answer: Free Thought Movement

25.  What kind of Christianity dominated the American religious landscape in the late 19^th century? – Answer: Protestant Christianity

26.  According to your history teacher (and this is only his interpretation), what does American religious history move in? – Answer: Cycles

27.  When is there (usually) a surge in religious activity in a country’s (or individual’s) history? – Answer: When times are bad (crisis/upheaval/war/uncertainty).

28.  Who was called “The Great Agnostic”? – Answer: Robert Ingersoll

29.  What event had the largest impact on American Religion? – Answer: Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (Evolution Through Natural Selection)