USA Flashcards
(157 cards)
1
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How many cars were there by 1929?
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26 million
2
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How many radios by 1929?
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10 million
3
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How much per day were Ford’s workers paid?
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$5 per day
4
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How many people worked at Ford’s River Rouge Plant?
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80,000
5
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Which suburb of Detroit grew by 700%
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Grosse Point Park
6
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What % of cars were bought on credit?
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60%
7
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What did Sears Roebuck start?
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Mail Order catalogues
8
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List two industries that prospered during the boom
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Cars, electricals, construction
9
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What was total farm income in 1919 and 1928?
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$22 billion and $13 billion
10
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Which country was destroying the US farm industry?
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Canada
11
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How many black farm labourers lost their jobs in the 1920s?
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1 million
12
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What percentage of semi-skilled workers owned a car?
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3%
13
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In Elizabethtown, Tennessee, how much were girls paid in the textile factories and for how many hours a week?
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18c per hour for a 56 hour week
14
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What percentage of wealth went to bottom percentage of the population?
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10% to bottom 42%
15
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What was introduced by 36 states to control how relationships were shown in Hollywood films and when was this?
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Hays Code, 1930
16
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How many radio stations were there by 1922?
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508
17
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By 1929, how much was NBC making per year?
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$150 million
18
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The first talkie, The Jazz Singer, was released in which year?
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1927
19
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How many new female workers were there by 1929?
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10 million
20
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What happened to the divorce rate by 1929?
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Doubled to 200,000
21
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How many immigrants arrived from Britain and Germany during the 1920s?
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5 million and 4.4 million
22
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Give two examples of violent attacks during the Red Scare
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April 1919: bomb killed 10 in Milwaukee church, May 1919: letter bombs sent to 36 Americans, June 1919: Attorney General Mitchell Palmer’s house was blown up.
23
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How many files did J Edgar Hoover have on suspects and how many proved to be truthful?
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60,000 and 556
24
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When were Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and executed?
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1920 and 1927
25
How many members did the KKK have by 1924?
4.5 million
26
Name one of the two states that had a KKK governor
Oregon and Oklahoma
27
How many branches and members did the NAACP have by 1919?
300 and 90,000
28
How much lower was life expectancy for blacks than whites?
11 years (48 compared to 59)
29
Which organisation did Marcus Garvey set up and how many members by 1921?
UNIA and 1 million
30
On average, how many lynchings took place per year in the 1920s?
50
31
Name a group in the temperance movement
Anti-Saloon League, Women’s Christian Temperance Society
32
How many more votes could politicians gain in rural areas by supporting prohibition?
50%
33
How many babies were allegedly smothered by drunken parents each year?
3000
34
How many arrests did Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith make?
4932
35
By what percentage did alcohol consumption decline in the 1920s?
30%-50%
36
How long did it take Izzy Einstein to find alcohol in New Orleans?
35 seconds
37
Name three gangsters during the prohibition era
O’Banion, Bugs Moran, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Johnny Torio, the Guizenbergs, George Remus
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How many unsolved murders were there in Chicago by 1929?
300
39
How much did Capone make from speakeasies per year?
$60 million
40
When was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and how many died?
14th February 1929 and 7
41
Who was the FBI boss of New York who sacked corrupt agents?
Don Chaplin
42
What did George Remus give out to guests at his parties?
$25,000 diamond cufflinks
43
What fraction of prohibition agents were corrupt?
1/12
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How many saloons and breweries were shut down during the prohibition era?
180,000 and 1800
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What was the name of the law which introduced prohibition?
Volstead Act
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How much was made by gangsters in total during prohibition?
$2 billion
47
What name was given to illegal bars?
Speakeasies
48
How much money did Capone give to soup kitchens during the Great Depression?
$300,000
49
In which year did prohibition end?
1933
50
What was the main reason Roosevelt ended prohibition?
Taxes to pay for New Deal
51
What does FERA stand for?
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
52
What is the first N of NANSPETCHEF and what 2 organisations did it set up?
NIRA and PWA and CWA
53
Give 2 aims of the New Deal
Get USA back to work, protect savings, provide for sick, old and unemployed, make industry and agriculture productive again
54
Name 3 high profile opponents of the New Deal
Huey Long, Dr Francis Townsend and Father Coughlin
55
Name 2 things the Social Security Acts did in the Second New Deal
Financial help to sick and disabled, pensions for elderly and widows, unemployment insurance schemes
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What did the NRA set up to improve factories and how many factories signed up?
Blue Eagle Badge Scheme and 2 million
57
How many black Americans were employed by the CCC?
200,000
58
What was the EBA and what did it do?
Emergency Banking Act opened 5000 trustworthy banks
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What nickname was given to useless jobs
Boondoggling
60
How much money did the PWA spend?
$3 billion
61
How many women were employed by the CCC?
8000
62
How many jobs did the WPA create in how many years?
8 million in 8 years
63
Why was the AAA contradictory?
Shared better farming methods but also set quotas
64
Which organisation did the NRA try to close and in which year?
Schechter Poultry Corporation, 1935
65
Name 3 things the PWA built
Schools, dams, bridges, airports
66
Who was FDR’s Secretary for Labour
Frances Perkins
67
How did the TVA help farmers?
By irrigating land
68
In which month and year was FDR elected?
November, 1932
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What was the name of the big trade union set up in 1935?
Committee for Industrial Organsation (CIO)
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How much did FERA give to states and name 3 things they bought?
$500 million and soup kitchens, blankets, employment schemes and nursery schools
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The WPA set up an organisation to take photos of farm land. What was it called?
Farm Security Administration Photographic Project
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Which part of the Second New Deal forced employers to allow unions?
National Labour Relations Act or Wagner Act
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How many corrupt officials did Francis Perkins remove?
59
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Which organisation replaced the AAA in the Second New Deal?
Soil Conservation Act
75
What did the share the wealth scheme want to cap personal fortunes at and annual income?
$3 million and $1 million
76
How many strikes were there in 1937 and what % were settled in favour of workers?
4700 strikes of which 80% were in favour of workers
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How many people were hired by the CCC?
2.5 million
78
In which month and year did FDR become President?
March, 1933
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How many people were still unemployed by 1941?
6 million
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Which Second New Deal agency supplied electricity to areas not previously supplied?
Rural Electrification Administration
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What was the EA and what did it do?
Economy Act and cut government employee’s wages by 15%
82
What name is given to the period of time between the Presidential election and becoming President?
Lame-duck period
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What was the name of FDR’s wife?
Eleanor Roosevelt
84
What was the main role of the CCC?
To create National Parks and accessibility to them
85
What was FDR accused of being like after threatening the Supreme Court judges?
A dictator or a fascist
86
Name 2 things the NRA did to improve factory conditions
Improved working conditions, outlawed child labour, fixed wages, fixed sensible production levels
87
Name the two laws of 1934 designed to help Native Americans
Native Reorganisation Act and Indian Reservation Act
88
What did FDR do for the USA every Sunday and how many people listened?
Fireside chats and 60 million
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How many Supreme Court judges did FDR threaten to sack?
6
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Name a dam built by the TVA
Fontana, Wilson
91
Name 2 Republican policies the New Deal was against
Laissez faire and rugged individualism
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Which union member was beaten up by Ford’s security force?
Frankensteen
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What did Republicans claim had crippled FDR?
An STD
94
What happened to Huey Long and in which year?
Assassinated in 1935
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Name one of FDR’s advisors who helped stop corruption
Harold Hopkins or Harold Ickes
96
Name two famous films from the 1930s
Gone with the wind and the Wizard of Oz
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Which film showed the fate of Okies who had been evicted from their homes during the Depression?
The Grapes of Wrath
98
How many homes had radios by 1939?
28 million homes
99
Which comics were first published in the 1930s?
Superman and Batman
100
Which basketball team became famous by touring the world?
Harlem Globetrotters
101
How much did the US government spend per day on the war by 1945?
$250 million per day!
102
How many machine guns and warships did the USA produce during WW2?
2.6 million machine guns and 86,000 warships
103
How many workers were there in factories during WW2?
14 million
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Which policy gave war resource to Britain and the USSR during WW2?
The Lend Lease
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What did the USSR receive during the Lend Lease?
7000 tanks, 18,700 aircraft and 400,000 jeeps
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How many black Americans gained jobs during WW2?
2 million
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How many women joined the workforce during WW2?
7 million
108
How many Japanese-Americans were sent to relocation centres during WW2?
100,000
109
What did FDR introduce in 1941 to help black American workers?
The Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
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What does CORE stand for?
Congress of Racial Equality
111
What did CORE do in 1947?
16 CORE activists travelled from northern to southern states in the Journey of Conciliation
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What did the Journey of Conciliation show?
Southern states were still discriminating against black Americans on interstate buses
113
What policy did JFK announce in 1960 to improve the lives of ordinary Americans?
Great Society
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What was the name of the plan set up in 1947 to help European countries rebuild after WW2?
Marshall Plan
115
Which race riots took place in 1965 and 1967?
Watts riot and Detroit riots
116
Who had 170 hit singles from the 1950s?
Elvis Presley
117
What does the CORE stand for?
Congress of Racial Equality
118
What did the House Committee of Un-American Activities do?
Investigated communist sympathisers in the government, education and film industry
119
Where did Martin Luther King organise a march to encourage blacks to register to vote in 1965?
Selma
120
What % of its income did bus companies lose as a result of the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
65%
121
During the 1950s, what percentage of the world’s goods did the USA produce?
50%
122
What does the SNCC stand for?
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
123
How did President Eisenhower solve the problem in Little Rock?
Sent in state troopers to protect the students for 6 weeks.
124
How many US soldiers were there by 1950?
600,000
125
Which famous boxer joined the Nation of Islam?
Cassius Clay/ Muhammed Ali
126
Who was the anti-Communist director of the FBI in the 1950s?
J. Edgar Hoover
127
Which act of government from 1964 wanted to replace inner-city slums?
The Development Act
128
By how much was the US standard of living higher than people in Britain?
Three times
129
What was the act of government from 1965 which banned literacy tests when registering to vote?
Voting Rights Act
130
How many blacks and whites were involved in the March on Washington in 1963?
200,000 blacks and 50,000 whites
131
How much money did the GI Bill of Rights set aside to help veteran soldiers with education and medical expenses etc.?
$13 billion
132
What organisation did Betty Friedan set up in 1966?
National Organisation for Women (NOW)
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What did the 1954 Brown vs Board of Education Topeka Act introduce?
Segregated schools had to allow black children in ‘with all deliberate speed’
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How many new homes were built in 1965?
240,000
135
During the 1950s what happened to the USA’s GNP?
It doubled
136
What was Malcolm Little better known as?
Malcolm X
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What common effect did the Berlin Blockade, Korean War and China becoming communist have on the USA?
Made them scared of communism
138
What did the Supreme Court make available to unmarried couples for the first time in 1972?
Contraception
139
Which black woman refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955?
Rosa Parks
140
What % of households had a TV by 1958?
83.20%
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Which group had 2000 members and were effectively a private, black army?
Black Panthers
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Who was the famous spy who served in Truman’s government?
Alger Hiss
143
How many cities had desegregated lunch counters following the Greenboro sit-ins?
126
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What did the Roe vs Wade case allow and when was this?
Abortion, 1973
145
Name a teenage rebel
Marlon Brando and James Dean
146
How much did President Johnson spend on education?
$1.5 billion
147
How many Hollywood actors were on the blacklist for being communist sympathisers?
150
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What was the name of the town in Arkansas which failed to allow 9 black students to attend?
Little Rock
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What was the name of the senator who started the 1950s Red Scare?
Joe McCarthy
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What group did the civil rights movement help set up in the Montgomery bus boycotts?
Montgomery Improvements Association
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What percentages of blacks were registered to vote in Mississippi in the 1950s?
5%
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Who headed the Nation of Islam?
Elijah Muhammad
153
What was the post-war generation known as in the USA?
The baby-boomers
154
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964?
President Johnson
155
What was the famous anti-Communist slogan in the 1950s?
There’s a Red under every bed.
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Which two organisations provided medical care for over-65s?
Medicare and Medicaid
157
What does the SCLC stand for?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
