KIN 2501 FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔What does ACSM stand for? - ✔✔American College of Sports Medicine
✔✔Discovery of New World - ✔✔1500's
✔✔Settling New World - ✔✔1600's
✔✔Colonies fight for independence and expansion - ✔✔1700's
✔✔Era of Good Feeling - ✔✔1800's
✔✔Puritan work Ethic, Prohibited sledding, football, dancing, swimming, ninepins,
shuffleboard
No Sunday amusements - ✔✔Massachusetts (Pilgrims)
✔✔Bowling, tennis, cricket, horse racing, ice skating - ✔✔New York
✔✔Religious
Quakers (William Penn)
Ice skating, swimming, hunt and fish - ✔✔Pennsylvania
✔✔Economic opportunity
Tobacco main crop
Physical activity embraced
1619- African slaves provided labor
Fox hunting, horse racing, golf, lawn bowling, and dancing - ✔✔Southern Colonies-
Virgina
✔✔Social center of town
Animal baiting, cockfighting, billiards, darts, dice
Betting - ✔✔Taverns
✔✔Early education - ✔✔Elementary
✔✔Secondary school - ✔✔Latin grammar school
✔✔Harvard college - ✔✔higher education
✔✔1st academy founded by - ✔✔Franklin (1749)
✔✔Academy included - ✔✔running, leaping, wrestling
, ✔✔Towns - ✔✔133
✔✔People in towns - ✔✔more than 2500
✔✔States - ✔✔26
✔✔5 commercial cities - ✔✔Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston
✔✔Immigrants - ✔✔12 million
✔✔Invention of basketball (1891) - ✔✔James Naismith
✔✔Volleyball (1895) - ✔✔William Morgan
✔✔Serious sport - ✔✔Horse racing, boxing, rowing, yacht racing, baseball, track and
field athletics, and football
✔✔Famous horse winning William Byrds gamble - ✔✔Selima
✔✔Popular in established cities, gambling made it controversial, banned in northern
cities - ✔✔horse racing
✔✔Became more popular in the south
Rich horse owner
Importing/breeding/training of horses for racing
Slave jockeys and trainers - ✔✔horse racing
✔✔Perceived as brutal by upperclass
bare knuckle, few rules
Traveling 'professionals'
Slave matches matched by owners - ✔✔Boxing
✔✔Base or goal ball, rounders, downhill - ✔✔Baseball
✔✔Couldn't play within 80 yards of town hall - ✔✔Baseball
✔✔The Knickerbockers - ✔✔Alexander Cartwright
✔✔Rules of baseball (1842) - ✔✔9 players on field, bases 90 feet apart, 21 counts,
change after 3
✔✔Recognized as the national pastime - ✔✔Baseball
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔What does ACSM stand for? - ✔✔American College of Sports Medicine
✔✔Discovery of New World - ✔✔1500's
✔✔Settling New World - ✔✔1600's
✔✔Colonies fight for independence and expansion - ✔✔1700's
✔✔Era of Good Feeling - ✔✔1800's
✔✔Puritan work Ethic, Prohibited sledding, football, dancing, swimming, ninepins,
shuffleboard
No Sunday amusements - ✔✔Massachusetts (Pilgrims)
✔✔Bowling, tennis, cricket, horse racing, ice skating - ✔✔New York
✔✔Religious
Quakers (William Penn)
Ice skating, swimming, hunt and fish - ✔✔Pennsylvania
✔✔Economic opportunity
Tobacco main crop
Physical activity embraced
1619- African slaves provided labor
Fox hunting, horse racing, golf, lawn bowling, and dancing - ✔✔Southern Colonies-
Virgina
✔✔Social center of town
Animal baiting, cockfighting, billiards, darts, dice
Betting - ✔✔Taverns
✔✔Early education - ✔✔Elementary
✔✔Secondary school - ✔✔Latin grammar school
✔✔Harvard college - ✔✔higher education
✔✔1st academy founded by - ✔✔Franklin (1749)
✔✔Academy included - ✔✔running, leaping, wrestling
, ✔✔Towns - ✔✔133
✔✔People in towns - ✔✔more than 2500
✔✔States - ✔✔26
✔✔5 commercial cities - ✔✔Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston
✔✔Immigrants - ✔✔12 million
✔✔Invention of basketball (1891) - ✔✔James Naismith
✔✔Volleyball (1895) - ✔✔William Morgan
✔✔Serious sport - ✔✔Horse racing, boxing, rowing, yacht racing, baseball, track and
field athletics, and football
✔✔Famous horse winning William Byrds gamble - ✔✔Selima
✔✔Popular in established cities, gambling made it controversial, banned in northern
cities - ✔✔horse racing
✔✔Became more popular in the south
Rich horse owner
Importing/breeding/training of horses for racing
Slave jockeys and trainers - ✔✔horse racing
✔✔Perceived as brutal by upperclass
bare knuckle, few rules
Traveling 'professionals'
Slave matches matched by owners - ✔✔Boxing
✔✔Base or goal ball, rounders, downhill - ✔✔Baseball
✔✔Couldn't play within 80 yards of town hall - ✔✔Baseball
✔✔The Knickerbockers - ✔✔Alexander Cartwright
✔✔Rules of baseball (1842) - ✔✔9 players on field, bases 90 feet apart, 21 counts,
change after 3
✔✔Recognized as the national pastime - ✔✔Baseball
