5 10 the great depression

THE GREAT DEPRESSION Fascinating Facts • After Roosevelt’s election, Charles Edison, president of Thomas A Edison, Inc., posted this notice: “President Roosevelt has done his part; now you something It doesn’t matter what you do—but get going and keep going This old world is starting to move.” • During his first one hundred days in office, Roosevelt introduced fifteen major laws, gave fifteen messages to Congress, and held press conferences and cabinet meetings twice a week • More than million young men worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps More than 100,000 of the men learned to read and write Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Summarize Text Features • Primary Source • Captions • Glossary Scott Foresman Social Studies ISBN 0-328-14907-1 ì