America: Story of Us, Part 4



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America: Story of Us, Episode 4

Viewing Guide

1. What does the Eerie Canal connect? How long is it? How was it built? What is its importance?

2. What was America’s role in cotton production? How did it affect life in the south?

3. What is the significance of Lowell, MA? How did Lowell factories contribute to the development of later technology?

4. Why did mill workers strike in Lowell? Describe working conditions.

5. What were the dangers of whaling? Why was whaling an important job?

6. Describe the slave auction depicted in the film.

7. Who was Frederick Douglass? What was his significance?

8. Describe the Underground Railroad as depicted in the film.

9. How did the Fugitive Slave Laws affect runaways? Freed men? How did abolitionists respond?

10. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? What was it about?

11. What was “Bleeding Kansas”?

12. Who was John Brown? What was his role in abolition?

13. What was the effect of the Election of 1860 on the nation?

14. Why did the South view Lincoln as an enemy?

15. What was Lincoln’s major argument regarding slavery? How did he view slavery in slave states?

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