WTK S1:E9 “How Did YOUR Ancestors Achieve Success Here in America?  Part 2”

(Chapter 4 page 49 of Forgotten American Stories: Celebrating America’s Constitution)

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Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten American Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids.

Questions:

1. What obstacles do you think Joseph Marion Hernandez (1788-1857) worked hard to overcome to be America’s first Hispanic U.S. Congressman?

2. What obstacles do you think Dr. Feng Shan Ho (1901-1997) worked hard to overcome to save over 1,000 Jews when Hitler’s Nazis occupied Austria?

3. What obstacles do you think John Moses Browning (1855-1926) worked hard to overcome to earn a total of 128 patents for innovative firearm designs and make significant contributions to our civilian and military defense enabling us to protect our personal and national freedoms?

4. What obstacles do you think Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte (1865-1915) worked hard to overcome to be America’s first Native American woman to receive her medical degree and to open her own hospital on a reservation in Nebraska?

5. What difference do you think their work made in their lives? …and in the lives of others?

6. Had they chosen to not have an American Dream and not work hard to overcome obstacles in achieving that dream, how might this have affected their lives? …and our lives?

7. How is Work a principle of success and happiness in this land of Liberty, Opportunity, and Hope?