Name:_______________________________________________________________
America: The Story of Us
Episode 7: “Cities”
Directions: Answer questions and record 2-3 quotes on the back.
1.Why was the Statue of Liberty given to the US as a gift from France?
2. How did Pulitzer raise money to construct the Statue of Liberty?
3. What is the Statue of Liberty’s official name?
4. How many immigrants came to the U.S. through way of New York/Ellis Island?
5. Who is Andrew Carnegie? Why is he important to America?
6. What is “Walking the steel”? What are the nicknames of the workers and their meanings?
7. How many ‘rough necks’ die on the job?
8. Which invention, besides producible steel, helped cities to grow?
9. The expansion of expensive cities also caused what to increase?
10. What phrase was coined because of Detective Thomas Brynes interrogation technique? And
What did his “Rogues Gallery” of mug shots help to establish?
11. How did Jacob Riis contribute to changing America?
12. Why is Colonel George Waring known as “America’s First Eco-Warrior?”
13. How many patents did Thomas Edison’s labs generate?
14. After testing over 6,000 elements what did Edison use to create the first light bulb?
15. What good (laws) came out of the deadly Triangle Shirt Waste Fire?
Name:______________________________________________________________________________
America: The Story of Us
Episode 8: “Boom”
Directions: Record 2-3 quotes on the back of the paper and create questions with answers below.
1. 2 questions and answers about oil:
2. 2 questions and answers about cars/Henry Ford
3. What are the 4 “vital ingredients” that allowed LA to be the fast growing city in America?
4. Describe the Los Angeles aqueduct-creator, purpose, details of construction:
5. What was the Great Migration?
6. What caused the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 to begin? How long did it last? How many wounded/
How many died? What events followed to create the “Red Summer?”
7. What was Prohibition? When did it start? What kind of ‘gang’/business did it help create? When
was it abolished and why?
Name:___________________________________________________________________________
America: The Story of Us
Episode 9: “Bust”
Record 2-3 quotes on the back and answer the questions below
1. By 1929 more money was spent on _________________ than ____________________.
2. The US Stock Market crashed in what year? _____________
3. From 1930 to 1932 how many American’s were un-employed? __________________
4. Who built the Hoover Dam? _____________________
5. Describe some of the processes and some of the problems encountered while constructing the
Hoover Dam?
6. What US state produces more food for our country than any other state? __________________
7. Describe the Great Dust Storm of 1934:
8. In the 1930s what was the most common household item? ____________________
9. The Washington Monument was a federally funded project by_____________ ______________
program called ____________________.
10. How many people watched/tuned into the rematch between Joe Louis and Schmeling at Yankee
Stadium:____________________ on the radio in the US:__________________ on the radio
worldwide:______________________
11. Over _________________ Americans died in WWII.
Name: _________________________________________________________________
America: The Story of Us
Episode 10: “WWII”
Directions: Answer the questions and record 2-3 quotes on the back
1. Provide details of the attack on Pearl Harbor (when, where, who, why, how many…)
2. By entering WWII, many jobs were created in America. What others things were
‘created’ and utilized during WWII through mass production?
3. What role did women play in helping America during WWII?
4. Who is Paul Tibbets? What role did he play in WWII bombings?
5. How many of George Washington’s soldiers during the Revolutionary War were African
Americans?
6. How many U.S. soldiers served in WWII?
7. Describe Operation Overlord (D-Day)
8. Who is Robert Oppenheimer? And What is the Manhattan Project?
9. How many total people died after bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
10. Describe America’s economy after WWII?
Name:________________________________________________________________
America: Story of Us
Episode 11: “Superpower”
Directions: Answer the questions and record 2-3 quotes on the back of the paper
1. 1811: What were America’s first highways? _________________ What invention made
trade on the Mississippi River more productive? ______________________
2. 1825: What was America’s “next great conveyor belt of progress?”
___________________________
3. President Eisenhower, in the 1950s, changed America by investing in what “biggest
engineering project in America history?” _______________________________
4. In the 1950s America was building what percentage of the world’s automobiles?
________
5. Why were the suburbs created? ________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________.
6. Why did more people move to the South, Florida and California in the 1960s?
7. More than many years after the Civil War (“the freeing” of slaves) did the Civil Rights
Movement begin? ___________________
8. What act was passed one year after the March on Washington?
________________________________________________________________
9. Prompted by WWII and the Cold War , the US spends how much on nuclear weapons?
____________________________________________________
10. What two threats were American’s most afraid of after WWII, the Cold War and the
Cuban Missile crisis? ___________________
Name:__________________________________________________________________
America: Story of Us
Episode 12: “Millennium”
Directions: Answer the question below and write 2-3 quotes on the back of the paper.
1. Name 4 technologies that have helped America develop into a powerful country.
2. Baby Boomers are the biggest ____________ in American history. Over
___________________million Americans were born after 15 post war years.
3. “______________ is deep in the American character.”
4. “Vietnam is the first ____________________ war.”
5. What was President Nixon charged with in the Watergate Scandal?
6. Nixon has been the only president to do what?_____________________
7. What was Ronald Reagan’s nickname?__________________________ Why?
8. Describe the change of the American landscape (materialistically) in the 1980s?
9. What was created in 1976 in a garage that has changed America?
10. In the 1990s what was the “2nd Gold Rush” that occurred in California?
11. The 9/11 attacks claimed how many American lives?________________
12. In 2007 how many Americans were born abroad?
13. In the past 20 years how many immigrants to America have come from Latin America
and Asia?
14. Americans can be described as “_________________” people. “We are a people who
believe that the __________________ is our friend.”