According to its defenders in the late nineteenth century, college football
A) epitomized American democratic ideals, because all Americans played or watched the game.
B) was a character-building sport that could function as a surrogate frontier experience in an increasingly urbanized society.
C) was a safe sport that the nation's future business and professional leaders could undertake without fear of injury.
D) would teach students the military discipline and skills necessary as the U.S. became a world power.
B
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A. make it less protester-friendly B. attract new residents C. deflect attention away from his social policies D. pacify reformers
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A) enthusiastic B) hostile C) ambivalent D) indifferent
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A) increasing slowly B) increasing dramatically C) declining D) nearly stopped
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a. He converted to Catholicism to attain the throne. b. He was killed on the battlefield in the French wars of religion. c. He issued the first document that attempted to institutionalize a degree of religious toleration. d. He established tentative peace in the French wars of religion. e. He was the Protestant bridegroom in the marriage that sparked the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572.