Showing posts with label 7th. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 7th. Show all posts

Monday, February 10, 2020

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? (50 words)

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Philanthropy Letter Assignment

Write a letter to a wealthy person during the early 1900’s. Explain the situation of the common people/poor and try to convince them to become philanthropists like Andrew Carnegie. (175 Words)


Business, Immigration, and Monopolies Notes


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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Chapter 3 - Spanish Flu Assignment

Chapter 3
1. What does Pandemic mean in Greek?
2. How many people died as a result of the Spanish Flu of 1918?
3. Where did the disease spread most rapidly?
4. Where do we think the disease may have originated?
5. What could happen to you if you sneezed or coughed without covering your mouth in New York?
6. How many Americans died of the flu in one week in 1918?
7. What makes strains of the flu stronger or weaker?
8. Who was most vulnerable to death from the disease?
9. How did Doctors function differently at this time?’
10. Who fed much of Europe during World War I?

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

President Letter Assignment

Write a letter to either President McKinley or President Roosevelt about your opinion on United States Imperialism at the time in Cuba, Panama, Hawaii etc. Do you agree with what they were doing at the time? Why or why not?

Minimum 250 Words!

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