Monday, March 30, 2015
Chapter 21/22 Questions
Chapter 21
- How did Eleanor view herself?
- Who raised Eleanor, and why did they do so?
- Where did Eleanor attend school?
- Describe a few of Eleanor’s attributes.
Chapter 22
- What did Eleanor say to her husband when he fell ill with polio?
- Describe some of the things that Eleanor did as first lady.
- What was her secret service codename, and why did they give it to her?
- How did FDR and his wife deal with the Second Bonus Army?
- Which specific group’s rights did she fight to protect as first lady?
- What did Eleanor do for Marian Anderson?
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Chapter 23,24,25 - 7th/8th Grade
Chapter 22
- What crippling disease affected Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
- What are the symptoms of that disease?
- Describe Roosevelt’s personality.
Chapter 23
- How many states did Roosevelt win in the election of 1832?
- What happened between the day Roosevelt was elected, and the day he took office?
Chapter 24
- What is a Pragmatist?
- What did former President Calvin Coolidge have to say about the Depression?
- What was “the Brain Trust”, and why did FDR call them together?
- List at least three things that the New Deal did.
- What was the Social Security Act?
- What was the “Aristocracy” of Talent?”
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Chapter 18 Questions 7th/8th
- Who did Hoover send the military out to remove from Washington DC?
- Why were the people from question 1 camped there?
- What did the army do when it reached the protesters?
- Who did Charles Lindbergh claim was a “fine leader”?
- Give an example of how Hoover “did not understand the needs of ordinary people”.
- What did Hoover believe about spending government money to stop the Depression?
- What did Stephen Spender say about the US?
- How did FDR campaign for President?
- What is voluntarism, and why did it not work during the Great Depression?
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015
Chapter 17 Questions
- Who is hurt most during an economic depression, and how was the Great Depression different?
- What did the census of 1920 show?
- What advantage did farmers have during the depression when compared to people in the cities?
- What caused the Dust Bowl?
- What states were directly affected by the Dust Bowl?
- Describe the picture on page 86. What does it tell you about the Dust Bowl?
- Could the dust bowl have been prevented? If so, how?
- How did different people cope with the Great Depression?
- What was a Hooverville, and how many people were living in them by 1933?
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Chapter 15/16 Questions
Chapter 15
- Who was elected President in 1928, and what were his qualifications?
- What ugly tactics were used by the campaign to win the election of 1928?
- Was Hoover’s Presidency a success and why?
Chapter 16
- What is a dividend, and who receives it?
- What is the SEC, and what is its purpose?
- What does it mean to buy stock on margin?
- Specifically where is the Stock Exchange located, and what does it do?
- What does “Dies Irae” mean?
- How do historians believe that the crash could have been prevented?
- Describe, in your own words, how an economic crash happens.
Monday, March 2, 2015
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