2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ middle colonies.
Answer: The 4 Folkways discussed in class were the Chesapeake,
New England, Backcountry and
◉ Refresh participants so they could better follow their "callings" in
the community.
Answer: In order for a game to be considered "Lawful Sport" by New
England Puritan leaders it had to be disassociated with traditional
British celebrations AND
◉ fox hunting.
Answer: All of the following would be considered tavern pastimes
EXCEPT:
◉ automobile.
Answer: All of the following were important 19th Century changes
in transportation that effected sporting ways EXCEPT:
◉ catholicism.
,Answer: Middle Class Victorianism was based on the idea that there
were shared values of the new middle class. All the following are
those values EXCEPT:
◉ Thomas W. Higgenson.
Answer: One of the biggest proponents of "Muscular Christianity" in
the late 19th Century was
◉ Upper/Lower Class.
Answer: The Victorian Counterculture was made up primarily of
which two groups?
◉ All of these were ways in which they hoped to make money.
Answer: Which of the following was NOT a way in which the
Sporting Fraternity hoped to make money hosting a sporting
spectacle?
◉ Hoboken, NJ.
Answer: The Elysian Fields, where the first-ever organized baseball
games took place were located in__
◉ Helped because soldiers were introduced to it during the war and
it spread far and wide after the war.
,Answer: The Civil War (1861-65) had what effect on the growth of
the Baseball Fraternity?
◉ Alexander Cartwright.
Answer: Who was the founder of the Knickerbockers Base Ball club?
◉ 57-0-1.
Answer: In its first season, the Cincinnati Red Stockings (first all-
salaried team) played 58 games and compiled what incredible
record?
◉ banning women.
Answer: When the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
was formed in 1876, they hoped to attract a middle-class Victorian
audience by doing all of the following EXCEPT
◉ Cincinatti.
Answer: Which National League city lost its franchise for refusing to
stop selling alcohol at its games?
◉ Scotland.
Answer: Caledonian Clubs were sporting communities set up by
immigrants from what country?
, ◉ unmarried women.
Answer: Which of the following groups were NOT made fun of
during the Pageant of Misrule?
◉ track/field.
Answer: Which of the following sports was closely related to
Caledonian Clubs?
◉ Lakota.
Answer: Which Native American tribe was NOT mentioned in the
text as playing Toli?
◉ stick ball.
Answer: Which of the following was NOT a forerunner of baseball
mentioned in the text?
◉ violent nature of the game.
Answer: College administrators used all of the following reasons to
promote football on their campuses in the late 19th Century EXCEPT
◉ applied to both male/female youths.
Answer: Which of the following was NOT part of Theodore
Roosevelt's "Strenuous Life"?