Vocabulary
People to Know
100
A place where stocks ar bought and sold.
What is a stock market?
100
Wrote books of poetry, stories, novels, plays, musicals and operas. He was born in Missouri in 1902.
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
Money that one person owes to another.
What is debt?
200
Wrote songs about the hardships faced by people who left the Dust Bowl.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
300
Electricity produced by moving water.
What is hydroelectricity?
300
He was President when the Great Depression began in the late 1920s.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
The lowest amount of money most workers can be paid.
What is minimum wage?
400
Only President elected for four terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
500
A program sent out over a radio or television station.
What is a broadcast?
500
Was the wife of a President, she worked hard to get people especially women involved in New Deal Programs.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
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