World’s Apart Video Questions

Choose the correct answers for each question:

Matching – Match options a through d with items

1 through 4 below.

_____ 1. Central Park in New York City

_____ 2. P. T. Barnum

_____ 3. John Deere

_____ 4. Mary Lyon

a. Mount Holyoke College

b. Playground for the rich

c. The American Museum

d. Steel plows

True/False – Determine whether each of the following statements is true or false.

_____ 5. At the time of the Revolution, wealth in

America was evenly distributed.

_____ 6. In the growing cities, extremely poor

people often starved to death or died of

exposure to the weather.

_____ 7. Industrialization blurred the distinction

between the public world of business

and the private world at home.

_____ 8. Intellectual fulfillment was not a part of

the cult of domesticity.

_____ 9. Social mobility served to limit class

conflict in America.

Fill in the Blank – Complete the following sentences with the missing word, concept, or person.

10. Some of the worst victims of ethnic and racial

prejudice in American cities were the _______

and _______.

11. _______ believed that women in the United

States were equal to men, in some ways,

because they had the luxury of domesticity.

12. The first college in the United States to admit

female students was _______.

13. In a _______ white actors played, and sometimes

ridiculed, African Americans.

Multiple Choice – Select the correct answer.

14. The middle class in the United States

a. drove the consumer side of capitalism.

b. held the reigns of political power

throughout the early nineteenth century.

c. was much wealthier than the European

middle class.

d. declined as industrialization expanded.

 15. The invention of the cotton gin

a. allowed long-staple cotton to be grown

inland.

b. reduced the need for slave labor in the

South.

c. brought a rebirth to the institution of

slavery.

d. followed the invention of the McCormick

reaper.

DV Connections-- View the video from the time indicated and determine the best DV match.

16) 00:45 What DV is on the rise?

17) 03:15 What DV might help these first up/ last to bed workers by giving them some power?

18) 05:15 What DV creates a poor class with few opportunities?

19) 06:00 What DV provides other options for the poor?

20) 07:15 What DV might provide these workers with a more equal opportunity in society?

21) 07:30 What DV limited opportunities for poor immigrants?

22) 09:15 What DV term would describe this period of reform in society?

23) 19:30 What DV term would include McCormick’s reaper?

Ch. 11 Think – These questions are designed to help you think about all you have learned. Consider them

carefully and then write your responses.

24) What invention (not mentioned in the video) could help farmers move crops up a river to markets?

25) Who led a violent revolt against slavery?

26) Who was a famous frontier settler with a dead animal hat?

27) Who were usually the cheapest workers to hire?

28) What invention caused slavery to grow in the south?