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Vocabulary
Important Dates
Comprehension Check
100
Homeless and jobless people who travel from place to place?
What are Hoboes?
100
The year trains started to become popular.
Why is 1900s important in the story?
100
They picked food out of trash cans.
Where did people get food from during the Great Depression?
200
Traveling by getting free rides.
What is hitchhiking?
200
The trains played a main role during the Great Depression.
What happened in the 1930s?
200
Women had less chances of finding work.
What is the reason why women couldn't dress like women?
300
Another word for soldiers.
What is the definition of troops?
300
Trains were popular again.
What happened in the late 1940s?
300
Threw 683,000 hoboes off the trains.
Why were the train guards so busy during the Depression years?
400
The large window in the roofs of some railroad passenger cars.
What are domes?
400
The government forced states to build more and better roads.
What is the importance of 1956?
500
Work stoppage by workers.
What are strikes?
500
Railpax was replaced with Amtrak by the government.
Why was 1970 important for the train service?