American History topic 12 pt 3

Question 1

New women’s colleges included

Answer 1

Vassar and Wellesley.

Question 2

Baseball-

Answer 2

was the most popular of the sports.

Question 3

Football developed from

Answer 3

An English game called rugby.

Question 4

The Morrill Act

Answer 4

gave states land they could sell to raise money.

Question 5

Hampton Institute and Howard University

Answer 5

Provided higher education for African Americans.

Question 6

Spectator Sports

Answer 6

Games watched for enjoyment

Question 7

James Naismith of Springfield Massachusetts

Answer 7

invented basketball in the 1890s

Question 8

George Washington Carver began research at Tuskegee, he developed?

Answer 8

Hundreds of products including plastics and paper from the Peanut.

Question 9

in 1870 less than 60% of children didn’t go to school, by 1914-

Answer 9

more than 80% of all children were enrolled in schools.

Question 10

Vaudeville

Answer 10

live variety of stage shows

Question 11

The first college football game was played in?

Answer 11

1869 between Rutgers and Princeton.

Question 12

Thomas Edison introduced

Answer 12

moving pictures in the 1890s

Question 13

In 1881 Booker T. Washington founded,

Answer 13

the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Question 14

The first movie theatres were called nickelodeons because

Answer 14

it cost a nickel to watch a short silent film.