Your Name: ______
Viewing Guide: “The Story of Us: Cities”
Directions: Watch “The Story of Us: Cities” and answer the following questions. You do not have to use complete sentences, but you need enough detail to show understanding. The link to this video if you were absent is found on www.laurathrower.com
SKILLS NEEDED: listening, comprehending cause and effect
1. Why was American given the Statue of Liberty?
2. List some challenges that were faced building of the Statue of Liberty:
3. What purpose did Ellis Island serve during the late 1800’s?
4. Andrew Carnegie became wealthy and famous in what industry in the city of Pittsburgh? ______
5. What was the new process called that made steel easy, fast, and cheap to produce?
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6. The narrator says New York during the “Gilded Age” was a place of “obscene opulence”. Based on some of the examples of wealth they give, what does “obscene opulence” mean to you?
7. What job did “roughnecks” perform? ______How many people died performing this job? ______
8. What steel innovation was built by Elisha Otis, that made the “vertical skyline” of New York possible? ______
9. In your own words, after watching the visuals,, define “skyscraper”?
10. Who was Jacob Riis (his background) and what “new technology” does he use to take his photographs? ______
11. What did he attempt to do through his photographs of tenements?
12. What was the name of his famous book? ______
13. Describe a typical tenement based on the photos you see. Use descriptive adjectives!
14. Describe some of the “filth” described in cities (before the sewage system and waste management were developed):
15. What was the job of the “white ducks”? ______
16. As a result of the filament, what was invented? ______Who invented this? ______
17. List some results this invention will have on society:
18. What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? In your description, be sure to include reasons why do many died?