History (USA 1920-73)

Question 1

What was hire purchase?

Answer 1

Buying goods with credit

Question 2

When was the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 2

28th October 1929

Question 3

1st mass produced car

Answer 3

Ford model T

Question 4

How did the Republican government help prosperity?

Answer 4

Laissez-faire (no interference)
Lowered taxes
Didn’t put controls on industries

Question 5

Cycle of prosperity

Answer 5

Mass production - jobs created - workers have more money - more demand for goods (around in a cycle)

Question 6

Advantage and disadvantage of tariffs

Answer 6

A - more americans people bought american good
D - other countries put taxes on their goods so less people abroad bought american goods

Question 7

New dances in the roaring twenties

Answer 7

Charleston, tango, bunny hug

Question 8

What were flappers?

Answer 8

Young women who had short hair, wore short dresses, wore make up, smoked and drove

Question 9

Who didn’t benefit from prosperity?

Answer 9

Farmers
Low paid workers
Older industries
Black americans and immigrants

Question 10

What was prohibition and when was it introduced?
What act said drink with over 0.5% alcohol was illegal?

Answer 10

Banning of alcohol in January 1920
Volstead Act

Question 11

What was moonshine?

Answer 11

Illegal alcohol made in people’s homes that often caused illness or even death

Question 12

Speakeasies

Answer 12

Secret illegal drinking pubs

Question 13

Bootleggers

Answer 13

People who smuggled alcohol into America from abroad

Question 14

Who was Al Capone?

Answer 14

A man who ruled an empire of crime in the Windy City: gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, bribery, narcotics trafficking, robbery and murder

Question 15

What were literacy tests?

Answer 15

A test that immigrants had to pass to get into the country (almost impossible)

Question 16

What was the Red Scare?

Answer 16

Group of americans in the 1920s that feared communism

Question 17

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

Answer 17

Immigrants from Italy who hated the US government and commited many robberies and murders before being executed in 1927

Question 18

What was the KKK?

Answer 18

A white supremacist group that tortured people who weren’t ‘true’ americans

Question 19

Three causes of the depression

Answer 19

They couldn’t sell goods abroad because other countries retalliated and introduced tariffs
Many people invested in the stock market and when it crashed, they lost all their money
Overproduction of crops (farmers)
When people wanted to withdraw money from the bank, they didn’t have any
Too many cars made and no one to buy them

Question 20

Impact of the depression

Answer 20

Homelessness, unemployment, people were without food

Question 21

Rugged individualism

Answer 21

Everyone should help themselves (believed by Hoover)

Question 22

The Bonus Army

Answer 22

Soldiers were promised a pension in 1945 but since the depression hit they wanted it early but didn’t receive it

Question 23

When did Roosevelt become president?

Answer 23

1932 election

Question 24

The Hundred Days

Answer 24

Roosevelt’s plan to quickly get America out the depression

Question 25

Public Works Administration PWA

Answer 25

Built schools, hospitals, dams, airports
Only for skilled workers

Question 26

Civilian Conservation Corps CCC

Answer 26

Supplied work to young men age 18-25
Specifically black men, unlike other agencies

Question 27

National Recovery Administration NRA

Answer 27

Blue Eagle
Set up minimum wage, maximum working hours, child labour outlawed

Question 28

Home Owners Loan Corporation HOLC

Answer 28

Helped home owners pay their mortgage

Question 29

Agricultural Adjustment Administration AAA

Answer 29

Paid farmers to burn crops to make them more valuable as they were being overproduced

Question 30

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Answer 30

Built 21 hydro-electric dams on the Tennessee River

Question 31

Civil Works Administration CWA

Answer 31

Provided work for 4M people
Built dams, roads, schools, toilets, public buildings

Question 32

Unconstitutional

Answer 32

The law or action violates the Supreme Courts’ interpretation of the Constitution. Therefore it is declared unconstitutional (banned)

Question 33

Feminist movements

Answer 33

National Organization for Women (NOW) - increased business opportunities for women
Roe V Wade - legalised abortion