Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Chapter 15/16

Chapter 15/16
1. What were Hoover’s qualifications to be President?
2. What ugly tactics were used by the campaign to win the election of 1928?
3. What is a dividend?
4. What does the SEC do?
5. What does it mean to buy stock on margin?
6. Specifically where is the Stock Exchange located, and what does it do?
7. What was happening to the Stock Market in 1927?
8. What does “Dies Irae” mean?
9. How do historians believe that the crash could have been prevented?
10. Describe, in your own words, how an economic crash happens.
11. Was Hoover’s Presidency a success and why? (100 words)

Monday, February 11, 2019

Chapter 13/14 Questions

Chapter 13
1. Who filmed Robert Goddard’s first rocket launch?
2. What two novels inspired Goddard to dream about space travel?
3. Why are the highest speeds of a rocket at the end of their flight?
4. Who created the first rockets in history, and what were they used for?
5. How many patents did Goddard create?

Chapter 14
6. Why was Charles Lindbergh famous?
7. In what year did the first transatlantic commercial flight occur?
8. What was a major challenge for a Pilot of such a long flight?
9. Lindbergh’s journey ended in which city?
10. Who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane?