In what year did things start to get really bad (worse)?
1929
100
Which President tried to make a plan to find people work?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
100
Movies that had sound were called what?
Talkies
100
What does vote mean?
To make a formal expression of choice
200
Which states were the first to give women the right to vote?
The western states
200
What were people buying that ended up losing a lot of money?
Shares of stock
200
Who was FDR's cousin (who was he related to)?
Teddy Roosevelt
200
What helped farmers grow more crops?
Tractors and other machines
200
What is a loan?
Borrowed money
300
Name three things that women started to do after they got the right to vote.
1. Cut their hair 2. Shortened their long skirts 3. Went dancing 4. Started listening to jazz 5. Decided to make more choices about their own lives
300
What was the dangerous mistake that businesses made that lead to their failure?
They started making more goods than they could sell.
300
What happened to FDR before he was President and just before he was elected governor of New York?
He got polio.
300
What did Ford use to make his cars that was much faster than old ways?
An assembly line
300
What is a stock?
A share of ownership in a company
400
Who became a leader for women's suffrage?
Elizabeth Cady
400
During the Great Depression, what did many people have to do?
They lost their homes and had to eat at places called soup kitchens.
400
What new laws were made when FDR became President, and how did these new laws protect people?
The new laws protected the money people put into banks.
400
What were the Great Plains called after the soil dried up and blew away in the wind?
The Dust Bowl
400
What does soar mean?
To go or move upward
500
Which new state demanded that women be allowed to vote, and what did they threaten?
Wyoming, and it threatened that it did not want to become a state if women could not vote.
500
In 1931, about how many people had lost their jobs and were out of work?
About 8 million people.
500
How many people got jobs after FDR was elected to President, and name three things that they did?
About 4 million people found jobs after FDR was elected.
They 1. Planted trees 2. Built roads 3. Built damns that protected farms from floods 4. Worked for the government
500
By 1927, how many different radio stations were there?