5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 10

Mrs. Thornburg’s version

Vocabulary in 5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 10

Unemployment New Deal

Regulation Charity

Division of Labor Social Security

Minimum Wage Hydroelectricity

Mass Production Broadcast

Assembly Line Prohibition

Stock Market Depression

Boom Debt

Stock Aviator

What do we call fast economic growth?

Boom

What do we call an arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product being made passes from

worker to worker until completed?

Assembly line

What do we call a place where people buy and sell stocks?

Stock market

What do we call a share of ownership in a company?

Stock

What do we call one who operates an aircraft?

Aviator

What do we call a radio or television program?

Broadcast

What do we call the act of forbidding something?

Prohibition

What do we call a period when many businesses close and people can’t find jobs?

Depression

What do we call money that one person owes another?

Debt

What do we call an organization that helps those in need?

Charity

What do we call the condition of not having a job?

Unemployment

What do we call making many identical products at once?

Mass production

What do we call electricity produced by moving water?

Hydroelectricity

What do we call the act of dividing a big project into smaller tasks and assigning each to a different worker?

Division of labor

What do we call a New Deal program that provides money to Americans over the age of 65, those with disabilities who

cannot work, and others in need?

Social Security

What do we call Roosevelt’s government plan that created programs that gave people food, shelter, and jobs during

the Depression?

New Deal

What do we call the lowest payment that an employer can legally pay an employee?

Minimum wage

What do we call a rule or law?

Regulation