A plan that helped farmers and businesses get back on their feet again.
What is the New Deal?
100
A way in which workers work together, each doing one task is called an _________________
What is an assembly line?
100
The majority of our population in Michigan live in _______ areas.
What are urban areas?
100
_____________ represents the legislative branch of a town or city.
What is a council?
100
A person who organizes, manages, and takes the risks, and responsibility for a new business.
What is an entrepreneur?
200
What is another name given to Detroit during the early 1900s because of the number of automobiles that were made there.
What is Motor City?
200
__________________ describes the method of making cars more quickly and cheaply.
What is mass production?
200
Explain the difference between urban and rural areas.
What are cities or towns? What are farming or living in the country?
200
Name the three branches of government
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
200
An economic system based on custom
What is a traditional economic system?
300
An industry that serves people is called a service industry. Give there examples of service workers.
What are cooks, teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc
300
An organization formed by workers is a ____________. What two things to they do to help workers?
What is a union? They try to get higher pay and better working conditions
300
Explain why farmers are able to produce more food today than they could 100 years ago.
What is using machinery, tractors, and fertilizers?
300
Describe the jobs of each branch of government.
Executive branch carries out laws
Legislative branch makes laws
Judicial branch sees that laws are followed
300
The opportunity to choose your work.
What is a free enterprise economic system?
400
Name four inventions that were created to make live easier during the "Roaring Twenties"
What are washing machines, radios, refrigerators, and televisions?
400
Explain the contributions of the following people: Ransom E. Olds and Henry Ford
Ransom E Olds was the first person to start an automobile industry in 1899. Henry Ford made the Model T and used mass production to make more cars quickly and cheaply.
400
Name three examples of discrimination
What is separating classrooms, not given higher paying jobs, not allowed to vote
400
Name the governor of Michgan
Who is Rick Synder?
400
An economic systerm where the government make shte decisions about distribution
What is a command economy?
500
Define the Great Depression. Give four examples how the Great Depression changed Michigan.
What is a ten year period when banks and businesses failed?
People lost jobs and couldn't pay bills. Schools closed because they couldn't pay taxes. Michigan suffered the most because they had a larger amount of factories.
500
This is harmful to the environment. Give three examples of this.
What is pollution? What are air, land, and water pollution
500
Why did more woman work in factories during WWII?
The men enlisted to fight and women needed to work to pay bills while they were gone.
500
Explain the process of how a bill becomes a law
1.Citizen has an idea
2. Takes idea to legislature
3. A bill is written
4.House passes bill
5. Senate passes bill
6. Governor accepts or vetos bill 7. 2/3 house and senate pass the bill 8. Law
500
An enconomic system that allows people to freely decided on production and distribution