Episode 6: 8. Cowboys 9. Texas Longhorn 10. Colt Joseph Glidden 12. Lt. Colonel George A. Custer 13. Wounded Knee 14.

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1 Episode 6: Heartland 22 notecards to create. 14 terms and 8 questions. Make sure you follow directions. You will be able to use these notecards on the unit 6 quiz for up to 10 bonus points. Bind this set together with a title card, Unit 6 Set 1, and your name and class period. 1. Transcontinental Railroad 2. Theodore Judah 3. Union Pacific, Central Pacific 4. Nitroglycerin 5. Homestead Act 6. Lumber/logging industry 7. Buffalo NOTE: Episodes 6 & 7 are both applicable to Unit 6. Therefore there is a total of 20 possible bonus points for this unit s quiz(es). 8. Cowboys 9. Texas Longhorn 10. Colt Joseph Glidden 12. Lt. Colonel George A. Custer 13. Wounded Knee 14. Richard Sears A. Why do you think President Lincoln decided to support the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, a very expensive project, even though the Civil War was still going on? B. What were some of the benefits of the Transcontinental Railroad? What were the human costs of its construction? What groups of people built the railroad? C. In this episode, the bison is described as a mobile general store for Native Americans on the plains. What does this phrase mean? What were the consequences of the destruction of the bison population for Native Americans? D. Who was Theodore Judah and what was his significance in American history? Why was he called Crazy Judah? E. What happened at the Battle of Little Big Horn? What was the outcome of conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. military on the plains? F. In 1886, Richard Sears established the first mail order catalog. Why do you think this development was a significant event in U.S. history? Source: Excerpt from Neihardt, John. Black Elk Speaks: Being t he Lif e St or y of a Holy Man of t he Oglala Sioux. University of Nebraska Press, In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. The east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance. This knowledge came to us from the outer world with our religion. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation s hoop, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children. G. What are some of the images you find most interesting in this passage? H. What do you think the hoop represents in this passage? What do you think threatened the sacred hoop?

2 Episode 7: Cities 19 notecards to create. 12 terms and 7 questions. Make sure you follow directions. You will be able to use these notecards on the unit 6 quiz for up to 10 bonus points. Bind this set together with a title card, Unit 6 Set 2, and your name and class period. NOTE: Episodes 6 & 7 are both applicable to Unit 6. Therefore there is a total of 20 possible bonus points for this unit s quiz(es). 1. Joseph Pulitzer 2. Emma Lazarus 3. Andrew Carnegie 4. Bessemer Process 5. Gilded Age 6. Flatiron Building 7. Elisha Otis 8. Chief Inspector Thomas Byrnes 9. Jacob Riis 10. Colonel George E. Waring, Jr. 11. Thomas Edison 12. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire A. What was the Bessemer steel converter? How did this invention shape U.S. history? B. Why do you think so many everyday Americans contributed money to help build the Statue of Liberty? C. What was the rogues gallery and what was its importance? What were some of the other methods used to curb crime? D. What was the key factor in Thomas Edison s success in designing the light bulb? What were some of the new things that were possible because of this invention? E. Why do you think the Triangle Shirtwaist fire happened? What were some of the results of this tragedy? Source: Emma Lazarus, 1883; The New Colossus (Today this poem is engraved on a plaque in the Statue of Liberty museum. Lazarus was an immigrant to the U.S. who became an advocate for other immigrants arriving on new shores for the first time.) The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she With silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! F. What do you think the phrase world-wide welcome means in relation to immigration in the U.S.? What are some other phrases from this poem that are meaningful? G. Why do you think this poem is considered an American classic today?

3 Episode 8: Boom 19 notecards to create. 11 terms and 8 questions. Make sure you follow directions. You will be able to use these notecards on the unit 7 quiz for up to 10 bonus points. Bind this set together with a title card, Unit 7, and your name and class period. 1. Spindle Top 2. Henry Ford 3. Assembly Line 4. Water rights 5. William Mulholland 6. Chicago Race Riot/Red Summer 7. Billy Sunday 8. Prohibition/18 th Amendment 9. Al Capone 10. St. Valentine s Day Massacre 11. Dr. Calvin Goddard A. How did the U.S. change after huge amounts of oil were discovered in Texas in 1901? Do you think this event still shapes our lives today? B. Why did Los Angeles city leaders need to seek water sources outside the city? What do you think were the risks of bringing in water from beyond the city limits? C. What was the Great Migration and when did it take place? D. Why do you think there was so much tension and violence against African Americans in urban areas in the 1910s and 1920s? E. What were some of the reasons for and against Prohibition in the 1920s? F. Despite the ban on alcohol, why do you think sales of liquor continued, and what were some methods police used to stop it? SOURCE: sermon delivered by evangelical preacher Billy Sunday, Booze, or Get on the Water Wagon, Sunday delivered the sermon many times, joining the chorus of voices in favor of the prohibition of alcohol. A charismatic preacher and former major league baseball player, Sunday drew tens of thousands of people to his powerful public sermons in the 1910s. The saloon is a coward, it s a thief; it robs you of manhood and leaves you in rags, and takes away your friends and robs your family, it will take the shirt off your back and it will steal the coffin from a dead child. It is the dirtiest most low- down, damnable business that ever crawled out of the pit of hell. It is a sneak and a thief and a coward. G. What do you think Billy Sunday hoped to achieve with this speech? H. Why do you think Sunday uses words like coward when talking about the dangers of drinking? Who do you think he hoped to reach and change through his sermons?

4 Episode 9: Bust 14 notecards to create. 7 terms and 7 questions. Make sure you follow directions. You will be able to use these notecards on the unit 8 quiz for up to 10 bonus points. Bind this set together with a title card, Unit 8, and your name and class period. 1. Great Depression 2. Panics 3. Hoover Dam 4. Dust storms 5. Radio 6. Mt. Rushmore and sculptor Gutzon Borglum 7. Joe Lewis vs. Max Schmeling A. What was the bank run of 1930 and what are some of the reasons it happened? What were the effects of the bank crisis in the U.S. on international politics? B. How would you describe Frank Crowe? What were some of the innovations that made the construction of the Hoover Dam possible? C. What was the significance of the construction of the Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore? How did these projects affect the U.S. economy? D. Why did the Dust Bowl take place? Looking back now, do you think it could have been prevented? E. Why were the boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling such big stories internationally? SOURCE: During the Great Depression, children throughout the U.S. wrote letters to President Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The letter below is an example of one letter written by a child affected by the Depression. To see more letters such as these see: Cohen, Robert, editor. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). January 20, 1938 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt, I am writing this letter in hopes that you will answer in my favor. My father H. C. has been in bed from a stroke for almost a year. We have no money an d my brother works but makes $3.00 a week and there are eight in our family. My step-mother is very good to me an d I try to help her. She takes in washings and I have to walk for six or eight blocks and then carry the washings home. I have to go of a morning before school and it has been very cold here. If you could send me a bicycle to ride when I go after washings for her I shall appreciate it. I am in eighth grade at school and work very hard to make passing grades. The Principal of the school bought two of my sisters and me a pair of slippers so we would not have to stay at home. If you would do this for me I shall be able to help my stepmother more. If you send me one I would like a girls bicycle. I am about 4 feet 3 inches tall so if you send me one you can judge as to what size. Loving and appreciating- A. L. C. F. What does the child in this letter ask for, and why does she say her family is in need? What does this letter reveal about the ways families were affected by the Great Depression? G. This is just one of thousands of letters written to President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Why do you think so many Americans thought the Roosevelts could help them?

5 Episode 10: WW II 17 notecards to create. 8 terms and 9 questions. Make sure you follow directions. You will be able to use these notecards on the unit 9 quiz for up to 10 bonus points. Bind this set together with a title card, Unit 9, and your name and class period. 1. Adolf Hitler 2. Pearl Harbor 3. Rosie the Riveters 4. B-17 bombers 5. Japanese Internment 6. General Dwight Eisenhower; D-Day 7. Hiroshima and Nagasaki; atomic bombs 8. Holocaust A. Why did the U.S. avoid involvement in WWII until December 1941? Why was the Pearl Harbor attack such a shock to the U.S.? B. Why was the invention of penicillin so important in the context of WWII? What were some other advances in medicine that were important during the war? C. How were women affected by WWII? Do you think the war advanced the rights of women? D. During WWII, the American armed forces were still segregated by race. Why do you think this issue became increasingly important during this era, leading to the desegregation of the Armed Forces a few years after the war? E. What were some of the arguments for and against using the atomic bomb? F. Overall, what were the consequences of WWII for the United States? How was the U.S. changed by the war? Source: from Save Our History: The National World War II Memorial, an original documentary by The History Channel, Before the United States entered the war, Joe Ichiuji, an American citizen of Japanese descent, was a corporal in the U.S. Army. Within two months of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Army discharged him and placed his family in an internment camp. When government recruiters came to this camp seeking recruits for an all Japanese-American combat unit in 1943, Ichiuji was one of the first to volunteer. Below are Ichiuji s recollections of this turbulent period, which proved to be the ultimate test of allegiance. Recollections of a Japanese-American World War II Veteran On loyalty: Japanese-Americans had to prove that they were loyal Americans because they had two battles to fight. One against the enemy in Europe and the Pacific, and the other against racial prejudice in the United States On Pearl Harbor: I felt very badly because the country of my parents would attack the United States. Here I m an American citizen. I m in uniform and I just wondered why would they do a thing like that and how would I face my friends, my comrades in the Army, that was my concern On the interment camp: The morale of the relocation camp was low after being uprooted from their home and friends and placed in the middle of the desert. On top of that the camp was surrounded by barbed wire and it was guarded by armed soldiers. The camp life was regimented like the Army you were assigned a number, you had to line up for mess, shower and toilet. And my family lost the control and as time went by they adjusted to camp life and they made the best of it. On the possibility of rejoining the Army: I just didn t want to give up this chance to show my loyalties as an American citizen and serve my country. Even though I was discharged and evacuated and placed in a camp and treated as an enemy alien. I thought that by proving that I was a loyal American, the people outside, you know, they would have confidence in us and remove us from the camp that was my aim. G. What do you think were some of the reasons Ichiuji wanted to serve in the Army despite the prejudice he might have faced? H. Why do you think Japanese Americans were interned in camps during WWII? I. The U.S. government later apologized to Japanese Americans for these actions, and many consider this incident simply as a dark moment in American history that will not be repeated. Has it been repeated? Do you think a similar situation could happen in our world today?

6 Episode 11 & 12: Superpower/Millenium 18 notecards to create. 12 terms and 6 questions. Make sure you follow directions. You will be able to use these notecards on the unit 10 quiz for up to 10 bonus points. Bind this set together with a title card, Unit 10, and your name and class period. 1. Interstate Hhighway Act 2. Suburbia 3. Cold War 4. Civil Rights movement 5. hippies and counterculture 6. Vietnam War 7. Watergate break-in 8. Reagan era 9. Silicon Valley 10. Barack Obama. 11. moon landing 12. Internet A. What inventions do you think have been most important in U.S. history and why? B. What do you think have been the five most important events in U.S. history since WWII? C. Many historians debate whether or not the U.S. has seen continual progress throughout its history, or if there have been moments of back-peddling or regression. How do you define progress in history? Do you think the U.S. has always progressed? Provide specific examples of progress and back-peddling. SOURCE: President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address (excerpt), January 20th, 2009 Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. D. President Obama noted that Americans faced a new era of responsibility. Why do you think these words and vision connected with so many Americans in ? E. Obama was elected in 2008; how do you think people will explain this time period 100 years from now? F. Identify two other eras in American history that have a similar theme to the election and administration of Obama from