SPEND

Question 1

SPEND for Ford and the Model T - 2

Answer 1

1924 - 10 million model T cars were made
Car production used 75% of America’s glass

Question 2

SPEND for immigrant workers in 1920

Answer 2

20% of workers were immigrants

Question 3

SPEND for consumer society - 2

Answer 3

By 1927, 70% of houses had electricity
60 million people each year went to the cinema

Question 4

SPEND for working women in WW1

Answer 4

Women in areas of work increased by 25%

Question 5

SPEND for inequality of wealth in the 1920s - 2

Answer 5

5% of Americans received 1/3 of Americas income
60% of families earned below the liveable wage

Question 6

SPEND for Prohibition - 2

Answer 6

200,000 speakeasies in 1933
Alcohol consumption decreased by 30% in the early 20s

Question 7

SPEND for the lack of enforcement of prohibition - 2

Answer 7

1/12 officers were corrupt
Only 1500 officers were enforcing prohibition

Question 8

SPEND for the members of the KKK

Answer 8

Members grew to 5 million in 1925

Question 9

SPEND for Unemployment in the 30s

Answer 9

In 1932 it was 23%

Question 10

SPEND for alphabet agencies - 3

Answer 10

20% of farmers benefitted from FCA relief money
CCC gave 3 million men jobs
TVA built 33 dams

Question 11

SPEND for limitation of alphabet agencies - 2

Answer 11

Only 200,000 African Americans benefitted from AAA
Only 8000 women were involved in CCC

Question 12

SPEND for unemployment in the 1940s

Answer 12

3% in 1945

Question 13

SPEND for benefit of WW2 on Women and African Americans - 2

Answer 13

7 million women joined the workforce during WW2
400,000 African Americans moved to the North to help with war efforts

Question 14

SPEND for lend lease

Answer 14

$50.1 billion worth of materials was shipped to Europe

Question 15

SPEND for desegregation during WW2

Answer 15

1948 executive order 9981 desegregated the military

Question 16

SPEND for McCarthyism

Answer 16

HUAC searched 3 million people from 1947-50

Question 17

SPEND for NSCC protests - 2

Answer 17

1960, 50000 students performed sit ins
400 freedom fighters were beaten up

Question 18

SPEND for unemployment in the 60s

Answer 18

Fell from 7-3% from 1961 - 1969

Question 19

SPEND for consumerism in the 60s

Answer 19

1960, 87% of families had a TV in their home

Question 20

SPEND for women’s in jobs in the 1960s - 2

Answer 20

Women earned 60% less than men for the same job
95% of managers were men

Question 21

SPEND for new civil rights policies - 2

Answer 21

1964 civil rights act prohibits discrimination based on race
1968 civil rights act prohibits discrimination in any field of work

Question 22

SPEND for women’s rights

Answer 22

1972 equal rights amendment stated that equality “must not be denied on the account of sex”