Trevor Noah asks random people on the street When was America great. Here is my answer: My answer: The moon landing, private space flight, high tech and the internet, Apple, MTV, YouTube, defeating the Nazis, Lincoln and the Union Army freeing the slaves, building the panama canal, lifting millions of its citizens out of poverty, free speech, the university system, the highway system, Appomattox and the peace made by Grant and Lee, Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, the national park system, individualism, individual home ownership, millions of families raising their children the way they choose, farms that feed the world, big juicy Texas sized steak, the Inchon landings, women's suffrage, the Lewis and Clark expedition, Woodstock, driving between states without having to pass a border checkpoint, Ralph Lauren, Levi Strauss, Marilyn Monroe, the stock room guy who fills your order at Amazon, the Met, the innocence project, bourbon, George Washington's Farewell Address, Gettysburg Address, Medal of Honor recipients, Ernest E. Evans, jazz music, blues music, stand up comedy, Ellis Island, real football, 4 time world's strongest man Brian Shaw, The Golden Gate Bridge, Mark Twain, Henry Ford, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney and Walt Disney World, the Wright Brothers, Elvis, Van Halen, Michael Jordan, Frank Sinatra, Andy Warhol, Richard Petty, Stan Lee, classic movies, Star Wars, Star Trek, classic TV, Fender, Martin and Gibson, Gustav Stickley, Louis Comfort Tiffany, reliable utilities such as garbage pickup, electric, and clean water and sewer, average Joes being able to raise their family in a nice house and move up, Alaskan Crab fisherman, powerline workers, the Marshall Plan, compare pre-WWII Japan to post WWII Japan, the Declaration of Independence, a nation of laws, not men, ... but other than that, WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS EVER DONE FOR US