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Influential Americans & Math
Notes on this PowerPoint Jeopardy game:
• Each question page leads to an answer page. Each answer page leads back to the main choice board.
• There is bonus type question in italics on almost every answer page to engage the thinkers even more. Use the on the keyboard to see the previous slide, if needed.
• The answers to the bonus question will be shown in the notes section of on each page. To have a printed copy, select print and choose to print “Notes Pages”.
• Each page is laid out such that clicking anywhere on the page will advance the slide – except for the bottom ½ inch or so, which will always be a citation link to the Library of Congress pages where the images can be found.
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Reconstruction to WWII
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Bry, T. (1591). [Outina defeats Pontanou with the aid of the French]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs
During Colonial times the English tried to convince the natives to join their side by promising them protection against the neighboring tribes.
Place the appropriate greater than/less than symbol between the two tribes to show how they compare in number.
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If we could see more of the picture, what could make another symbol the right one to use?
Bry, T. (1591). [Outina defeats Pontanou with the aid of the French]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs
Wood, S. N. (c.1911). [King (Metacomet) Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags, d. 1676, full length, standing at treaty table with white men]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs
Colonial $200
This image shows a meeting between Metacomet (King Phillip) and colonists from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Which group had more people at the meeting: the colonists or the Wampanoug?
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Answer: colonists
What was the ratio of Wampanoug to colonists?
Wood, S. N. (c.1911). [King (Metacomet) Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags, d. 1676, full length, standing at treaty table with white men]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs
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Chegeree. (ca. 1755). Map of the country about the Mississippi. Library of Congress: Exhibitions, American Treasures of the Library of Congress
As the colonies grew, the colonists began taking over more and more native land. Indian Chiefs such as Massasoit began organizing attacks on the colonists for disobeying the treaties they had set.
During this time there were 15,000 natives and more than 35,000 colonists living in America. How many more colonists were there than natives?
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Answer: approximately 20,000
Approximately how many times more colonists than natives were there?
Chegeree. (ca. 1755). Map of the country about the Mississippi. Library of Congress: Exhibitions, American Treasures of the Library of Congress
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John Smith claims that Pocahontas saved him from captivity in 1607. However, he did not publish a book about this event until 1616.
A) How many years are between the event and the publication of the book?
B) This painting was made in 1870. How many years are there between when the event happened and when the painting was made?
New England Chromo. Lith. Co. (c1870). Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. John Smith / New England Chromo. Lith. Co. (b&w film copy neg). Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Popular Graphic Arts
Colonial $400
Answers:
A) 9 years. B) 263 years.
Is this picture a primary or secondary source?New England Chromo. Lith. Co. (c1870). Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. John Smith / New England Chromo. Lith. Co. (b&w film copy neg). Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Popular Graphic Arts
Colonial $500 During the 1700s, South Carolina’s economy was heavily based on growing rice. Slaves from the rice-growing regions of Africa, known as the Rice Coast and the Windward Coast, were therefore especially attractive to the planters, who were willing to pay higher prices for slaves with experience with the crop.
This was a deadly assignment for slaves, however, since up to a
third of them died within a year of their arrival.
If 250 Africans arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1780, how many of them would still be alive one year later?Unknown. (1940-1960). To be sold, on board the ship Bance Island, ... negroes, just arrived from the Windward & Rice Coast. Library of Congress: American
Memory, African American Odyssey
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Answer: 166
Based on this document, how many of the surviving people would you expect to have had small-pox already?
Unknown. (1940-1960). To be sold, on board the ship Bance Island, ... negroes, just arrived from the Windward & Rice Coast. Library of Congress: American Memory, African American Odyssey
Melchers, G. (1921). [Conspiracy of Pontiac]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Revolutionary $100
This image depicts Pontiac meeting with British colonists. Given what you already know about the relationship among Native Americans and British colonists, what chance do you think there is for peace? Is it certain, unlikely, or impossible?
What percent would you give to the chance?
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Answer: The chances for peace are probably unlikely…why?
What would a percent be if the chance was very likely? What if there was no chance?
Melchers, G. (1921). [Conspiracy of Pontiac]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
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Unknown. (n.d.). Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. (Image 19). Library of Congress: American Memory, African American Odyssey
There are 15 total lines in this poem by Phyllis Wheatley.
If there are 3 stanzas in the poem, how many lines are there per stanza?
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Unknown. (n.d.). Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. (Image 19). Library of Congress: American Memory, African American Odyssey
Answer: 5 lines per stanza
What is the name for this type of stanza?
King, R. (1818). A map of the city of Washington in the District of Columbia established as the permanent seat of the government of the United States of America. City map with depiction of "East front of the Capitol of the United States" / by Rt. King, surveyor of the City of Washington. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs
Revolutionary $300
When Benjamin Bannecker and others first drew the plans for Washington, D.C., the city was intended to be built on exactly 100 square miles of land donated by other
states. In 1846, Congress voted to give back to the state of Virginia all the land
they had donated. Now, Washington, D.C. is 68 square miles.
How much land did Congress
give back to Virginia?
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Answer: 32 square miles of land.
If this land was rectangular, what could be it’s dimensions? King, R. (1818). A map of the city of Washington in the District of Columbia established as the permanent seat of the government of the United States of America. City map with depiction of "East front of the Capitol of the United States" / by Rt. King, surveyor of the City of Washington. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs
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On Thursday, December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty left a massive protest meeting and headed toward Griffin’s Wharf where three English ships carrying tea were docked. The men quickly unloaded the cargo and dumped the tea overboard. By dawn, 45 tons had been dumped into the harbor.
An eyewitness account published in the Boston Gazette a few days later reported that the entire event took less than four hours.
If this is true, how many tons of tea were dumped each hour?
Berger, D. (1784). Die einwohner von Boston wersen den englisch-ostindischen thee ins meer am 18, December 1773 / D. Chodowiecki inv. et del. ; D. Berger sculpsit 1784. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Popular Graphic Arts
Berger, D. (1784). Die einwohner von Boston wersen den englisch-ostindischen thee ins meer am 18, December 1773 / D. Chodowiecki inv. et del. ; D. Berger sculpsit 1784. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Popular Graphic Arts
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Answer: a little more than 11.25 tons per hour
If there are 2,000 pounds in a ton, how many pounds of tea were wasted? How much do you weigh?
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Thomas Paine was born in 1737. He wasknown for pamphlets that helped bring attention to the Revolution.
What year would this flyer have been made?
Unknown. (n.d.). Programme. Paine's ode to America. Air-"Rule Britannia.". Library of Congress: American Memory, America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
Unknown. (n.d.). Programme. Paine's ode to America. Air-"Rule Britannia.". Library of Congress: American Memory, America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
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Answer : Thomas Paine would have
been 133 years old in 1870 .
How old would Paine be today?
Which other people’s birthdays do we celebrate still?
Will we celebrate yours?
Douglass, F. (1849). The North Star. Library of Congress: Exhibitions, American Treasures of the Library of Congress
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Many of the periodicals published before the Civil War that were devoted to the abolition of slavery were short-lived. Frederick Douglass’ North Star, founded in Rochester, New York, in 1847 was an exception.
The North Star remained in publication until 1861. How many years did it last?
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The North Star remained in publication for 14 years
The North Star's slogan, "Right is of no Sex--Truth is of no Color--God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren," testifies to the broad
scope of the newspaper's coverage, including not only emancipation but also women's suffrage and education.
Douglass, F. (1849). The North Star. Library of Congress: Exhibitions, American Treasures of the Library of Congress
American Anti-Slavery Society & Anti-Slavery Office (New York). (1837). Am I not a man and a brother?. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Cartoon Prints, American
Antebellum $200
David Walker was a pamphleteer who used his position as a free black to spread the word that revolution was possible. He would sew pamphlets like this into the clothing of sailors
who would deliver them to slaves in the south.
If one copy of his pamphlet was read by 25 people and he sewed 10 copies into the sailors clothes, how many total people could he expect to read his pamphlet?
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David Walker could expect 250 people to read his pamphlet.
The pamphlet says to costs 2 cents per single copy or $1.00 per hundred. It also says there were 2,250,000 slaves in the U.S. How much would it cost to buy enough pamphlets so that all slaves got to read one?
American Anti-Slavery Society & Anti-Slavery Office (New York). (1837). Am I not a man and a brother?. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Cartoon Prints, American
O'Sullivan, T. H. (1862). [Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gin on Smith's plantation]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Selected Civil War Photographs
Antebellum $300
This image shows slaves sorting through cotton on a S.C. plantation in 1862.
Around this time, cotton was the biggest cash crop in the South. 1.8 million of the 2.5 million slaves in the U.S. worked with cotton.
How many slaves were involved in growing other cash crops like tobacco and indigo?
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Approximately 0.7 million slaves were working with
other crops.
How do you write out 0.7 million?
What percent was that of the total slaves?
O'Sullivan, T. H. (1862). [Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gin on Smith's plantation]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Selected Civil War Photographs
Unknown. (1840-1880). Margaret Fuller. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs
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In her work Summer on the Lakes, Margaret Fuller discusses the role
of women in Westward Migration. She identifies specific hardships that women faced on the trip West and
speaks from her experience visiting the Wisconsin Territory.
Women were in charge of cooking for their family. If they ate 3 meals a day
and each meal took 4 hours to prepare, what percentage of their day was spent cooking?
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The women spent 50% of their day cooking.
What percentage of the day do you think women today spend cooking?
Unknown. (1840-1880). Margaret Fuller. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs
Drake, B. (1856). Life of Tecumseh, and of his brother the Prophet; with a historical sketch of the Shawanoe Indians. Library of Congress: American Memory, The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
Antebellum $500
During the battle of Thames, the British joined Tecumseh and the Indian Confederation in battle against the United States.
As a result of the Battle, 15 U.S. soldiers were killed. The British and Indian Confederation lost 3 times that number.
If the British and Indian Confederation started with 1300 men, how many men survived the battle?
Antebellum $500
Drake, B. (1856). Life of Tecumseh, and of his brother the Prophet; with a historical sketch of the Shawanoe Indians. Library of Congress: American Memory, The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
Answer: 1255
This drawing depicts the death of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh at the Battle of Thames during the War of 1812.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Special Committee on Chinatown. (c1885). [no.1]: From Miscellaneous Selections : San Francisco's Chinatown - Architectural Space: Official map of "Chinatown" in San Francisco. Library of Congress: American Memory, The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
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In the 1800s most Chinese Americans settled in California. San Francisco was the first city to host a large Chinese population. Most Chinese lived near each other in the city’s “Chinatown.”
How many streets in Chinatown are perpendicular to Dupont St.?
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Answer: 4
What type of angles are formed by the intersecting streets on this map?
Are any streets parallel to Dupont St?
San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Special Committee on Chinatown. (c1885). [no.1]: From Miscellaneous Selections : San Francisco's Chinatown - Architectural Space: Official map of "Chinatown" in San Francisco. Library of Congress: American Memory, The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
Unknown. (1920). Madam C.J. Walker--Preparations. Library of Congress: American Memory, American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources
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In the 1800s advertising started to become a way of life. Madame C.J. Walker (also known as Sarah Breedlove) took advantage of this to sell her hair products.
Sarah Breedlove became one of the wealthiest African-Americans in the country.
If she earned $50.00 by selling 100 bottles of hair tonic, how much did each one cost?
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Each one would cost 50 cents.
How much would she have earned if she sold 100 bottles of each type of “toilet preparation” shown in the advertisement?
Unknown. (1920). Madam C.J. Walker--Preparations. Library of Congress: American Memory, American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources
Burke & Atwell. (1916). [Suffragists Protest Woodrow Wilson's Opposition to Woman Suffrage, October 1916]. Library of Congress: American Memory, Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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In 1920 after many decades of hard work by suffragettes like Alice Paul, the 19th Amendment to the constitution was passedgiving women the right to vote.
In the 1916 Presidential Election there were 18,536,585 Americans who cast a ballot. In 1920, therewere 26,765,180.
How many more Americans voted in 1920 than in 1916?
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8,228,595 more Americans voted in 1920.
According to the U.S. Census statistics, In the 2000 U.S. elections 59,284,000 women and 51,542,000 men voted.
Burke & Atwell. (1916). [Suffragists Protest Woodrow Wilson's Opposition to Woman Suffrage, October 1916]. Library of Congress: American Memory, Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
Muir, J. (1894). The mountains of California, by John Muir. Library of Congress: American Memory, "California as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
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John Muir, known as “the Father of our National Parks,” was born in Scotland in 1838, and moved to the United States with his family when he was 9 years old. He loved to travel, and even walked from Indianapolis, Indiana, to the Gulf of Mexico.
One of his favorite places was California. From the Sierra Nevada Mountains, he wrote, he could see the Central Valley ofCalifornia, “level and flowery, like a lake of pure sunshine, forty or fifty miles wide, five hundred miles long… .” Today, the Central Valley is home to many of the nation’s farms.
What is the perimeter of this region?
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The perimeter of the region could be between 1,080 and 1,100 miles long.
What could the area be?
Muir, J. (1894). The mountains of California, by John Muir. Library of Congress: American Memory, "California as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
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William Johnson was a famous artist during the Harlem Renaissance. He lived in France, New York, and Denmark and his artwork was influenced by all of the cities he lived in.
Based on the paintings below, what are the odds that all of William Johnson’s paintings used bright colors?
Can you give a ratio?
Follow this link and type in “Johnson, William H” to view all these images on the Library of Congress Web site
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The odds are good that a painting by William Johnsonmade use of vibrant colors.
Answer: 5 out of 6 paintings were colorful. (5/6 or 5:6)
Based on these images, what would the odds be as a ratio?
Follow this link and type in “Johnson, William H” to view all these images on the Library of Congress Web site
Unknown. (n.d.). [Dinosaur exhibit at the Field Museum, with the tail of the dinosaur at the right of the image]. Library of Congress: American Memory, Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
Post-War U.S. History $100
Dr. Luis Alvarez was a famous scientist during the 20th century. Although he was a physicist and helped make the atomic bomb during World War Two, he was interested in other areas of science, too. He worked with his son Walter, a geologist, to prove that asteroids collided with the Earth more than 60 million years ago and that this caused a change in the climate that killed the dinosaurs.
We have been able to learn about the dinosaurs from their bones, which have been found buried throughout the world. Scientists recreate skeletons, like this one on exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago, to help us better understand these huge creatures.
Estimate (guess) how many bones make up this skeleton.
Post-War U.S. History $100
If this dinosaur was a T-Rex, a complete skeleton would have around 200 bones.
If the man in the picture was 6 feet tall, estimate how tall the skeleton is.
Unknown. (n.d.). [Dinosaur exhibit at the Field Museum, with the tail of the dinosaur at the right of the image]. Library of Congress: American Memory, Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. (1908). [Professor Elmer S. Riggs standing next to dinosaur bones at the Field Museum]. Library of Congress: American Memory, Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
Post-War U.S. History $200
Roberto Clemente played right field for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 to 1972. Clemente’s batting average and his fielding were so good that he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the first Hispanic American to achieve that honor.
During his long and successful career, he had 9454 at bats and 3000 hits. What fraction represents the relationship between his hits and his at-bats? (Estimate!)
http://www.umich.edu/~ac213/student_projects/spr/baseball.html
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His ratio of hits to at bats is about 1/3. This
number is his batting average.
Clemente had a batting average of 0.317, meaning he got a hit 31.7% of the time. Barry Bonds average today is about 0.299.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bondsba01.shtml
http://www.umich.edu/~ac213/student_projects/spr/baseball.html
Tillson, K. (1985). Falling an old-growth redwood, 1985. Library of Congress: America's Library, Explore the States
Post-War U.S. History $300 Rachel Carson was an environmentalist, someone who wants to protect and
preserve nature. Her activism in the 1950s and 1960s paved the way for later environmental groups.
One issue that has led to a lot of conflict is the logging of
old-growth redwood trees. Environmentalists want to
preserve them for future generations to enjoy, but lumber companies love them because they are very strong and big.
A typical redwood grows to be 367 feet tall. How many 6 foot men would need to stand head-to-toe to be as tall as one of these trees?
Post-War U.S. History $300
Over 61 six-foot tall people standing head-to-toe would be needed to be as tall as a Redwood, whose scientific name is Sequoia.
Compare the height of the man in the photo to the pine tree next to him. If it takes 61 men to equal the height of the Sequoia tree, how many pine trees would it take to equal the Sequoia?
Cooper, W. S. (n.d.). Sequoia sempervirens, Eel River Valley, California. Library of Congress: American Memory, American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library
Post-War U.S. History $400
Migrant farm workers are people who move from place to place to pick crops as they are harvested.
Cesar Chavez helped start the United Farm Workers union to fight for migrant farm workers’ rights. His organization won rightsand protections for workers such as getting paid a decent wage and working in safe conditions.
On a tomato farm in Florida, the average person works 10 hour days, picks 100 buckets of tomatoes and earns about $50 in one day.
How long would it take to pick one bucket of tomatoes and how much would the bucket be worth?
Hemming, R. (1941). "Group of Children Posing Under Sign That Reads "U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration Farm Workers Community." . Library of Congress: America's Library, Meet Amazing Americans
Post-War U.S. History $400
It would take 6 minutes to pick one bucket.
The bucket would be worth $0.50
What would be the workers wage per hour?
Today, there are about 13 million migrant farm workers in the U.S.
Hemming, R. (1941). "Group of Children Posing Under Sign That Reads "U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration Farm Workers Community." . Library of Congress: America's Library, Meet Amazing Americans
Leffler, W. (1964). [Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs
Post-War U.S. History $500In 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer, the youngest of 20 children, was born to a sharecropping family in Mississippi. Although she went on to become a passionate civil rights leader, she dropped out of school after sixth grade to work in the fields. This was not unusual.
In the 1930s, only 5% of black students in Mississippi went to high school.
There were about 1 million African Americans living in Mississippi in 1930, and about half of them (500,000) were below the age of 18.
How many of these children would have gone to high school?
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250,000 of African American children would have attended high school.
If 5% of children went to high school and Fannie was one of 20 children, how many of the
children in her family would have gone to high school?
Leffler, W. (1964). [Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs