America 1 Flashcards
(90 cards)
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When was prohibition
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January 1920 until 1933
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What happened in June 1924
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Ford Motor Company sold10 millionth model T
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When were Sacco and Vanzetti executed
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August 1927
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What was “The Jazz Singer”
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The first ever talking film released in October 1927
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When was the wall street crash
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October 1929
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What happened in November 1932
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Democrat’s Franklin D Roosevelt defeated President Hoover in the presidential election
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When did FDRs new Deal begin
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March 1933
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What happened in December 1941
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Pearl Harbour attacked by Japanese forces
USA declares war on Japan and enters WW2
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When did Roosevelt die
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April 1945
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Who succeeded roosevelt
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His vice president Harry S Truman
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When did the USA drop nuclear bombs and on what cities
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August 1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Who became president in November 1952
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General Dwight D Eisenhower
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What was the court case that made racial segregation in schools
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Brown v Board of education of Topeka in May 1954
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Who was Rosa Parks
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Lady who refused to give up her seat on bus leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in December 1955
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When did John F Kennedy become president
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November 1960
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When did Martin Luther King deliver his famous speech and what is the speech called
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August 1963
I have a Dream speech
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When was JFK assassinated
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November 1963
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Who succeeded JFK
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Lyndon B Johnson
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When was the Civil Rights Act passed
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June 1964
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What event took place in August 1964
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North Vietnamese boats attacked two US warships sparking escalation of vietnamese conflict
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What was Roe V Wade
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US Supreme court case that gave women right to an abortion in 1973
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What is a constitution
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Document describing how country is run
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What are the two types of government in USA
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Central federal
State
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What is the Bill of Rights
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Part of constitution giving citizens rights eg to vote, freedom of belief/information and freedom in law.
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What are the political parties in USA
Republican - stay out of peoples lives, low taxes, traditional, conservative
Democrat - intervene, party of ordinary people, help poor vulnerable, more liberal
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What are the main four groups that make up american society
First Americans
Early immigrants
New Immigrants
African-Americans
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What are WASPs
White anglo saxon protestants
the early immigrants who became dominant fore in US society best jobs, 90% wealth etc
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When did electricity in homes happen in US
15% in 1916 to 70% in 1927
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What put high taxes on foreign goods so americans bought more american goods and created more american jobs
Fordney-McCumber tariff
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What is the cycle of prosperity
Mass production goods made cheaply
More people can afford goods
More people employed to make goods
People spend wages on goods
Adverts persuade people to buy more goods
Hire purchase helps people buy goods
So more mass production and cycle continues
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By when did American make half of world's consumer goods?
1929
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How many fridges in 1921 and 1929
17 in 1929 for every 1 in 1921
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Over what period did number of phones double
10 million in 1919, 20 million in 1929
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When and where was the first Ford factory built
1903
Detroit, Michigan
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What did Ford introduce in 1913
The assembly line method of production
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What car was produced by the assembly line
Ford Model T
"An affordable car for ordinary people"
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What impact did assembly line have on cost of Model T
Price fell
$800 in 1911
$295 in 1928
15 million people bought one between 1911 and 1929
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How many people had shares in 1929
20 million people,
5 times as many as in 1920
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What is buying on the margin
Buying shares with money borrowed from the bank or with small deposit then paying it off with profits made when shares sold
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What is a dividend
A share of the company profit a shareholder gets each year
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How many millionaires in 1927
15000 US millionaires
but
42% population had income of under $1000/year
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What happened to farming in US between 1920 and 1930
Income dropped by a third
Job losses
600000 farmers lost their farm in 1924 alone
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What traditional industries suffered in 1920s
Coal mines
Cotton and wool mills
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Where did most african americans live
Southern states
Mississippi and South Carolina
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When was the economic boom and what are the best examples of it
1920s
Stock Marker
Motor industry
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What is the Roaring Twenties
1920s
time of great social and cultural change
more money more leisure time and more fun
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What music changes were there
Jazz
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong
Dances - charleston one step
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How did Cinema grow in 1920s
Audiences of million in 1919 to 100 million 1930
Star system
Hollywood created
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What is a talkie
A movie with sound
First was 1929 the Jazz Singer
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What happened to Sport in 1920s
Golden age
Sports stars were celebrities
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What crazy crazes were there in 1920s
Mahjong - chinese board game
Crossword puzzles
Marathon dancing
Pole sitting
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How did women's lives change in 1920s
More indepedence, jobs and money
Lived on their own
Divorce rate doubled
Drank and smoke in public
Dressed differently more casual and revealing
More promiscuous
This was not same for poor and southern states where things stayed same
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When were women given right to vote
1920 due to their war work roles
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What is a flapper
Independent and fashionable women of 1920s
Northern states upper and middle class women
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What was prohibition
Nationwide ban on production, importation, transportation and sale of alcohol from 1920 to 1933
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What is moonshine
homemade alcohol
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What is a speakeasy
an illegal bar
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Name some famous gangsters
Al Capone
"Lucky" Luciano
Machine Gun Kelly
Vito "Chicken Head" Gurino
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What is bootlegging
illegal manufacture, transport, selling of alcohol
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How much money did Al Capone make
$2 million a week from organised crime - illegal alcohol, dog and horse race fixing, running brothels, racketeering
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Who repealed (got rid of) prohibition
Franklin D Roosevelt
Was part of his election campaign
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How many people immigrated to USA between 1850 and 1914
40 million
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What were the Immigration Laws
1917 Law/ Literacy act
1921 Immigration quota Law
1924 National Origins Act
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When was slavery abolished in USA
1865
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What were Jim Crow Laws
Laws passed by white politicians driven by fear and racial prejudice to keep african americans segregated
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What was segregation
Keeping white and black communities separate. African americans could not use same swimming pools, hotels, restaurants even cemeteries.
Different roles in military.
mixed race marriage banned.
African americans would not get justice through legal system as judges upheld Jim crow Laws
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What happened in the north due to segregation
African Americans moved north.
African American population of New York and Chicago doubled in early 1900s.
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What happened in Chicago in 1919
Race riot as a black youth accidentally entered a whites only beach
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What is the Black Renaissance
African american communities flourished in northern cities.
Harlem became centre for creativity, black culture and black pride with talented writers, poets, artists and musicians.
Whites were attracted by excitement and liveliness esp jazz bars
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Who was WEB Du Bois
Great Grandson of an african slave set up the NAACP
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What is the NAACP
National Assocaition for advancement of coloured people.
rocked to improve rights of African Americans eg campaign for right to vote
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What was the KKK
Ku Klux Klan
A racist terror group aiming to eep white supremacy over african americans and immigrants "keep them in their place"
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When did KKK start
1860 to terrorise african americans in southern states so they were too scared to register to vote
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What important film came out in 1915
The Birth of a Nation
Hollywood feature film that glorified the KKK projecting it as organisation protecting decent law abiding citizens
Sparked revival by 1925 5 million members of KKK
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What were the KKK methods
Dressed in white sheets, hoods and carrying US flags carried out whipping, branding with acid, castration and lynching
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Why was KKK membership only 300,000 by end of 1925
A popular local KKK leader convicted of brutal kidnap, rape and murder of young woman. He exposed KKK secrets at trial and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Was there an american communist party
Yes set up in 1919
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What is an anarchist
Someone who doesn't;t believe a country should be run by organised government but a system of voluntary cooperation where everyone rules themselves
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Why were anarchists feared
An anarchist Leon Franz Czolgosz shot dead US president William McKinley in 1901
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What is the Red Scare
A period when bombs were planted allegedly by communists and there was fear communists would take over so Palmer raids occurred to arrest the communists "reds"
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Who was Alexander Mitchell Palmer
Man in charge of americas laws and police.
In July 1919 suicide bomber destroyed his house and a communist newspaper was found by body of bomber
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What were the Palmer Raids
Arrest of 6000 suspected communists or "Reds". Little evidence found of communist plots
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Who were Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were italian born immigrant anarchists.
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What was the case of Sacco and Vanzetti
They were charged with robbing a shoe factory and murdering two staff in April 1920.
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When did the Sacco and Vanzetti case begin
May 1921 lasted 45 days
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What was the outcome of the Sacco and Vanzetti court case
They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
Even though:
they said they were innocent
They didn't speak much english so could not understand the case.
The judge said Vanzetti may not have committed the crime but he is morally to blame as he is the enemy
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Who was the judge in the Sacco and Vanzetti case
Judge Webster Thayer
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Why is the Sacco and Vanzetti case important
It was reported worldwide
There were huge demonstrations against the verdict
Protesters said the trial was unfair and they were found guilty due to their race and anarchist ideas
Today it is seen as an example of how intolerant of immigrants US society was in 1920s
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What happened to Sacco and Vanzetti
They were executed by electric chair on 23 August 1927
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