Daily State Questions (DSQ) # 26

Serving Our State The governor of Ohio is elected to serve for 4 years. The state senators are also elected to four-year terms. State representatives are elected to 2 year terms. 1. How many years can a state governor serve? 2. How many years can a state representative serve? 3. How many years can a state senator serve? 4. What is the name of the governor of our state? (If you don't know, look it up!) Sea To Mountain Ohio used to be under water! Later it was covered by glaciers, or large ice sheets. The glaciers moved from north to south. They smoothed the plains and left rolling hills. The last glacier stopped not far from where Akron is today, leaving southeastern Ohio with steep hills and valleys. 5. Did the glaciers leave smooth land or steep mountains? steep mountains smooth land 6. Think of 2 animals that might have lived in Ohio when it was under water. Hard Times! Many Ohio businesses shut down when the stock market crashed in 1929. Almost half of all Ohio workers lost their job! If a business did not shut down, it paid workers less money. It took President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his program called the New Deal to put thousands of Ohioans back to work. 7. The stock market crash occurred in what year? 1976 1865 1929 8. What 2 things did businesses do when the stock market crashed? 9. What put Ohioans back to work? stock market crash New Deal newspaper article Bighorn Battle George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley. He served as a Civil War Union officer and later fought Indians west of the Mississippi River. He died fighting Indians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 which is present-day Montanna. 10. Which is the bighorn sheep? 11. General Custer lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn. 12. Where can you visit this battle site and memorial today? Defend Yourself! One of the jobs of the government is to defend the nation. The president of the United States is commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Those forces include the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard. Ohio has one Air Force and two Coast Guard bases. 13. What body of water near Ohio do you think the Coast Guard bases watch over? 14. Label the pictures: Army, Air Force or Navy. Navy Army Air Force