Exam 2: Social and Cultural Sources for the Rise of Sport in North America Main Themes

In the history of African American involvement in American sport, in which sport have African Americans been involved the longest?

The railroad played an instrumental role in the staging of the first

The first professional baseball team was player owned and player controlled.

The forms of sport in any given society evolve out of the social and cultural traditions of that particular group and can be understood only by understanding the social history of that society.

Intercollegiate sports in the United States began

The invention and development of the telephone was the most important advancement for communication of sports news during the first half of the nineteenth century.

There was a variety of organized participant and spectator sports during the colonial period in North America.

Which of the following communications breakthroughs did not stimulate the growth of sport in the nineteenth century?

With the impact of modernization in the latter nineteenth century, organized sports participation became a prominent source for male identity and a primary basis for gender division.

Which early-twentieth-century Native American athlete was an all-American intercollegiate football player, an Olympic gold medalist, and a member of the Track and Field Hall of Fame.