Why were "amateur" sports so attractive to wealthy Americans in the late nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Amateur sports were especially attractive to upper class Americans because they were a way of segregating the wealthy leisure class from the professional athletes who were champions of the masses and engaged in sport for money. Exclusive athletic clubs sponsored "gentlemen's" sports like tennis, yachting, polo, and golf that usually were too expensive in time or money for working class Americans.
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President Cleveland's reaction to the possibility of annexing Hawaii was to
A) withdraw the treaty annexing Hawaii from the Senate, but refuse to oust the American revolutionaries by force. B) send the army and navy to guarantee American control of the islands. C) withdraw the treaty annexing Hawaii from the Senate and use force to oust the American revolutionaries. D) negotiate a treaty annexing Hawaii but fail to push it through the Republican-dominated Senate.
The new leaders of the Meiji regime
a. sought to eliminate all Western influence from their country. b. denied key administrative posts to modernizing samurai from the Sat-Cho group. c. planned to create a modern political system based on the Western model. d. celebrated the role of the samurai in past and future society. e. gave the emperor absolute power inasmuch as he was a divine descendent of the Sun Goddess.
The moon god Nannar is a deity from which early civilization?
A. Sumer B. Greece C. Egypt D. Indus valley
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
A. a Puritan minister B. the vice-governor of Virginia C. a backcountry planter D. an indentured servant