Go to the videos page and watch all 5 clips from the America: The Story of Us episode entitled Boom. As you are watching answer the following questions:
1. How did the U.S. change after huge amounts of oil were discovered in Texas in1901? Do you think this event still shapes our lives today?
2. Why did Los Angeles city leaders need to seek water sources outside the city? What do you think were the risks of bringing in water from beyond the city limits?
3. What was the “Great Migration” and when did it take place?
4. Why do you think there was so much tension and violence against African
Americans in urban areas in the 1910s and 1920s?
5. What were some of the reasons for and against Prohibition in the 1920s?
Despite the ban on alcohol, why do you think sales of liquor continued, and
what were some methods police used to stop it?
