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“America: The Story of US - Bust”
BUST!!
1. What does the “merchant” do that ends up hurting the Bank of the United States?
2. After the merchant leaves the bank, what does he do that causes the Bank of the United States to collapse?
3. How long does it take the Bank of the United States to collapse?
4. By 1933, how many states have no banks left in them at all?
5. Why does Frank Crow want to build a dam across the Colorado River?
6. How does Frank Crow's Hoover Dam project help relieve the Great Depression?
7. What happens when male workers - anxious to do any kind of work they could find - work too fast and get “anxious to get back into the tunnels”?
8. How does Frank Crow solve the problem of needing over 100 years for the concrete to harden before he can finish building the Hoover Dam?
9. Name two (2) things that the Hoover Dam’s creation does for the American southwest.
10. The Hoover Dam causes what city to grow, becoming a major tourist destination even today?
DISASTER!!
11. What is the “the worst environmental disaster in American history” the narrator mentions?
12. Name two (2) cities where this happens:
13. How have human beings caused this “environmental disaster”? (i.e. What have human beings done to the Earth - and for how long - that caused this disaster?)
14. What did the American Red Cross do to help victims of this “environmental disaster?”
15. What percentage of the people decide to “stick it out” after this “environmental disaster” strikes?
TECHNOLOGY!!
16. What becomes “the country’s most popular household item” after this disaster?
17. The narrator says that “40% of America lives in isolated, rural areas”. How does this “household item” help connect all of these isolated people?
18. Name two (2) ways that Americans use technology to build the “new national monument”. HINT: Use what you hear the narrator say and what you see in the video to answer.
19. How many years will it take for the “new monument” to “wear back to its intended shape?”
20. What does this say about what the builders think about America?
WINNING AND LOSING!
21. How does boxer Joe Lewis relate to the Great Depression? How does it signify what is to come for America?
22. What did the fight between Joe Lewis and Max Schmelling represent to Americans?
23. Who wins the 2nd fight between Joe Lewis and Max Schmelling?
24. How long did it take this person to win the fight?
“America: The Story of US – Bust” Analysis Guide Answer Key
1. “He asks for all of his money from the bank, or, “He withdraws his money from the bank.”
2. He spreads a rumor that the bank didn’t have any money.
3. Overnight.
4. 28
5. To supply hydroelectric power, help create new cities in the southwest.
6. The project brought 5,000 jobs to the area.
7. They go into the tunnels too soon and workers blow the dynamite. Men also got carbon monoxide poisoning.
8. He installs miles of pipes in the concrete to cool the structure faster.
9. (1) Helps to give electricity to Las Vegas; (2) Creates Lake Mead. (Students might also answer “helps California produce more food than any other state.”)
10. Las Vegas, Nevada
11. Huge dust storms; (1) New York, (2) Chicago
13. Set up relief tents to help people stuck in the dust storms.
14. 2/3 (or 70%)
15. Radios
16. Helps them to hear the news from around the world; to stay connected.
17. (1) Use explosives to blast the rock; (2) Use pulleys and ropes to hang workers off the mountain on platforms or “swings”.
18. 30,000; That America will be here a long time.
19. He fought German boxer Max Schmelling. Lewis was like the U.S.A. and Schmelling represented Nazi Germany.
20. The fight between the U.S.A. and Germany; Joe Lewis; about 2 minutes.
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