The Century Video Questions – Part I



The Century Video Questions – Part I

Volume 1: The Beginning: Seeds of Change

1. List two examples of the living conditions for millions of the poor in Europe?

2. What percentage of the world’s railroad tracking did the United States have at the turn of the century?

3. The climate of innovation in the United States at the turn of the century has been compared to which famous historical period?

4. How many cars were there in the United States in 1900?

5. What was the price of a Model-T sell in 1908?

6. How did immigrants coming to America feel when they first saw the Statue of Liberty?

7. In Pittsburgh, it was said, “prosperity is measured by…”

8. How old were the youngest of child laborers?

9. How many workers died in the Triangle Shop fire?

10. What is Progressivism?

11. What couldn’t a woman teacher do at the turn of the century?

12. What percentage of blacks lived in poverty in the South?

13. What ideas did Booker T. Washington support?

14. What ideas did W.E.B. DuBois support?

15. How many people lived in the United States at the turn of the century?

16. What form of transportation was inaugurated in 1904?

17. What famous amusement part did thousands visit in New York?

18. Where could Americans have free access to ideas?

19. At the turn of the century how many in 3 had been born somewhere else?

20. How much did it cost to get into the movies at the turn of the century?

21. What was the name of the first American film to tell a story?

22. What happened on February 15, 1898?

23. What ideas did Theodore Roosevelt support?

24. What did the United States do in April of 1898?

25. List the “spoils of war” the United States received from the Spanish-American war.

26. What happened to President McKinley?

27. Why did President Roosevelt want to build a canal?

28. What did the opening of the Panama Canal symbolize?

29. Germany’s building a large navy was a direct threat to which country?

30. What happened in June of 1914?

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