Midterm

Front 1

Cleveland's name change? When?

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From spiders to indians, in 1915, Sockalexis was the inspiration for this name change.

Front 2

Jim Thorpe

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"Bright Path" Sac and Fox tribe, played football baseball, olympic track. Stripped of medals for being semi pro baseball player when olympics was amateur.

Front 3

Richard Henry Pratt

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Carlisle Indian Boarding School- first one, "kill the Indian, save the man", served in the Indian wars, militaristic approach.

Front 4

Passamaquoddy Legend

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How the Indians learned to play baseball-- the chief's son was found playing with the Wababanal, the mythical spirits of the north. This means that ball play was a traditional ritual for indians, had a lot of value.

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Indian Citizenship Act

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Dawes Act- land allotment-- once abandoned tribal ways and deemed civilized, citizenship was granted. 1887-1934.

Front 6

Who created Basketball and when was it officially introduced?

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1891 James Naismith at the YMCA. White educator.

Front 7

Duke Kahanamoku

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Hawaiian swimmer surfer (inventor, pioneer) water polo- olympics racial ideology about his body, 3 world records but disallowed- measurement?

Front 8

Queen Lili'uokalani

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accused of plotting rebellion, imprisoned, formally abdicated and cedes HI to US in 1898 annexed.

Front 9

Which nation provided the majority of immigrants to the US in 1901-1920?

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Italy

Front 10

Hank Greenberg

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Baseball player for the dodgers, "hebrew hammer" 1920s, jewish, born in new york, would not play on yom kippur.

Front 11

% of German Ams in US forces during WW2?

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30%, which helps explain why the were not interned, since we needed them.

Front 12

How did Germans influence baseball culture as we know it today?

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Management became more heterogenous- less british Ams, used beer and liquor money to expand franchises to philidelphia and pittsburgh. brought in more german fans.

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Vince Lombardi

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Coach of the Green Bay Packers, born into a working class family, Italian, catholic, and very religious

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Decade of KKK resurgence

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1920s

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Jim Crow

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character created by TD rice in black face (sambo) from the slave song JumpJim Crow, later the name of restrictive segregation laws imposed upon blacks.

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Great Migration

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1910s to 1940s blacks leave for north b/c of bull weevil, world war 1 opportunities for jobs, and lynchings/violence.

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2 Supreme Court cases that institutionalized separate vs. equal?

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Plessy vs. Ferguson- railway cars, ******* vs Richmond County board of Education- separate but equal schools.

Front 18

Annette Kellerman

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Famous vaudeville actress who wore a one piece without a skirt in the 1920s, arrested on a beach. This suit became known as the annette kellerman first appeared in 1908 when arrested.

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2 states with most liberal swimsuit codes

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Florida and California, primarily at resorts

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"Babe" Didrikson

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"the Texas Tomboy" helped found ladies professional golf association, from working class family, norwegian and southern, played many different sports, may have married for appearances, struggled with perceptions of femininity.

Front 21

Marty Glickman

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Jewish olympic track athlete who did not get to compete at 1936 Berlin olympics 400m relay, probably because of racial reasons, along with sam stoller. Avery Brundage's role?

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Jesse Owens

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4 time olympic gold medalist from alabama,ohio part of great migration, view of boycott- do as white man says, hitler's snub, did not wave/ invite to box? Track team with Glickman.

Front 23

Which Af Am intellectual wrote that Joe Louis's fight inspired Jew/AF AM camaraderie?

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Richard Wright

Front 24

Chinese Exclusion Act

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1882 10 yr moratorium on chinese immigration labor, renewed multiple times, resident aliens denied citizenship through naturalization, reinforces stereotypes that they are sojourners, "yellow peril", repealed in 1943 when us becomes allies w china in ww2.

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Cable Act

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1922, women who marrry chinese men cease to be citizensof US.

Front 26

Joe Louis

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boxer, also interested in golf, the brown bomber, alabama to detroit great migration, concerned about his reputation vs. jack johnson, vs. Schmelling- symbol.

Front 27

Issei vs. Nissei

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Issei first gen. Jap Am born in Japan, Nissei- 2nd gen jap am born in america

Front 28

Kenichi Zen Zenimura

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dean of the diamonds, interned in gila river az camp, helps create a field and 32 teams to cope/distract, helped babe ruth play in japan which increased baseball popularity there

Front 29

Size of Japanese Communities in Oregon

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3.5 % of total in US, but had been there a long time

Front 30

% of AMS with zero savings at outbreak of Great Depression?

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80%

Front 31

What historical period contributed to the construction of softball parks and fields?

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Great Depression, New Deal era, 1932-1940.

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"Caucasian only" rule in golf PGA

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whites only clause passed in 1943, revoked in 1961, in their constitution, Joe Louis helped revoke thru exhibitions, blacks were seeking integration b/c of war time, joe louis becoming a symbol.

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First black golfer to gain full PGA membership? When?

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Charlie Sifford, not until 1964.