USA

Question 1

What percentage of americans had electricity in 1916 and 1927?

Answer 1

1916- 15% 1927-70%

Question 2

How many cars were there in the US in 1919 and 1929?

Answer 2

1919- 9 million 1929- 26 million

Question 3

How many radios where there in 1919 and 1929?

Answer 3

1919– 60000 1929- 10 million

Question 4

Whats the cycle of prosperity?

Answer 4

Mass production means goods are cheaper- more people can afford goods- hire purchase plans help people buy gods- advertising persuades people to buy even more- more people employed to make these goods- people spend there wages on even more goods- products are mass produced.

Question 5

How much did the price of the model T go down due to the invention of assembly lines?

Answer 5

1911- $800 1928- $295 as a result 15 million model Ts had been sold by 1929.

Question 6

How many people worked in the car industry in 1925?

Answer 6

500000

Question 7

A fact that show wealth was spread unequally across the US

Answer 7

by 1927 there were around 15000 US millionairs. In contarst 42% of people lived on less than $1000 a year.

Question 8

What were the weekly audiences in movie theatres in 1919 and 1930s?

Answer 8

1919- 35 million
1930s- 100 million

Question 9

When were American women given the right to vote?

Answer 9

1920

Question 10

What were flappers?

Answer 10

• Mainly white wealthy middle and upper class women from the northern states
• Flappers would drive cars, ride motorbikes, go to nightclubs with men.
  -Had short hair and short skirts
  -ha d a live fast, die young attitude

Question 11

Crazes that became popular in the 1920s?

Answer 11

crosswords/ marathon dancing/ pole sitting

Question 12

A base ball player that became a household name and a millionaire in the 1920s

Answer 12

Babe Ruth

Question 13

What happened in 1927 that made going to the movies more popular?

Answer 13

invention of ‘talking pictures’ or ‘talkies’

Question 14

What happened to divorce rates in America in the 1920s?

Answer 14

it doubled

Question 15

When was the prohibition?

Answer 15

16th January 1920- 5th December 1933

Question 16

How did bars were there before the prohibition and then during the depression?

Answer 16

Before prohibition- 15000
during the depression- 32000

Question 17

How much did Al Capone make a week?

Answer 17

$2 million

Question 18

what did Al Capone get jailed for?

Answer 18

Tax evasion

Question 19

How many people emigrated to America from 1850- 1914?

Answer 19

around 40 million

Question 20

What did the 1921 Quota law do?
And then the 1924 National origins act do?

Answer 20

QL-Limited the number of immigrants allowed into the USA to 350,000 a year
NOA- Limited the number of immigrants allowed into the USA to 150,000 a year

Question 21

When was slavery abolished in the US?

Answer 21

1865

Question 22

Examples of Jim Crow laws

Answer 22

Segregation in restaurants, swimming pools, libaries, toilets and cemetaries.

Question 23

How many members did the KKK have in 1925

Answer 23

around 5 million

Question 24

How many communists were arrested in the palmer raids?

Answer 24

6000

Question 25

What is Anaechism

Answer 25

A political view that belives people should organise themselves through voluntary cooperation. Anarchists dont believe in organised governments political institutions or laws

Question 26

What caused the economic boom?

Answer 26

USA joined ww1 late so didnt lose many resources so they could sell goods to europe. Invention of assembly lines by henry ford 1913

Question 27

How much money was spent on the stock market by 1929

Answer 27

9 billion dollars

Question 28

How much did female emploument increase during the boom

Answer 28

24%

Question 29

Who suffered during the boom

Answer 29

Farmers/ immigrants/ blacks/ workers/ poor

Question 30

How were farmers impacted during the 1920s

Answer 30

6 million were forced of the land to try and find work in urban areas/ in the south pests decimated crops/ overproduction of crops meant there was a surplus amount that wasnt being sold

Question 31

famous female role models in the 1920s

Answer 31

theda bara, gloria swanson joan crawford

Question 32

what was lynching

Answer 32

the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process.

Question 33

How manhy black americzns were lynched by the kkk in the 1920s

Answer 33

400

Question 34

How did the lives of black americans improve in the 1920s

Answer 34

Howards univercity for blacks, Black celebs, louis armstong, pul robeson set of of NAACP

Question 35

what was the life expectancy of black compared to whites in the 1930s

Answer 35

black- 48 whites- 59

Question 36

How much did the death rate due to alcohol fall during prohibition

Answer 36

42%

Question 37

How many arrestes did izzy einstein and moe smith make

Answer 37

4392

Question 38

how may agents were corrupt during prohibition

Answer 38

1:12

Question 39

how much did al capone make a year from selling alcohol

Answer 39

60 million

Question 40

What caused they wall street crash

Answer 40

overporoduction, lazes fair kept wages low so workers couldnt afford goods/ most americans still earnt less than 2000 a year

Question 41

when did the stock market collaps

Answer 41

october 1929

Question 42

How many farmers were evicted during the great deppression

Answer 42

1 in 20

Question 43

when was the great deppresion

Answer 43

1929-1932

Question 44

how did farm income fall during the great deppresion

Answer 44

overfarmed land turned into dust bowls, people couldnt afford goods, overproduction of goods

Question 45

how much did farm income fall by during the gd

Answer 45

13billion to 5 billion

Question 46

how much did wages fall by during the deppresiion

Answer 46

60%

Question 47

how many people became unemployed per day during the great depressiom

Answer 47

12000

Question 48

in 1931 how manh people were addmited to hospital due to malnutrition

Answer 48

238 45 of the died

Question 49

what happened in dec 1930 to the bank of US

Answer 49

it failed with 400000

Question 50

how many banks clodes during the gd

Answer 50

10000

Question 51

how many companies whent bankrupt during the gd

Answer 51

100000

Question 52

What did hoover attempt to do to save the economy

Answer 52

1930- cut taxes 1932- emergency releif act set aside 300 million to provide unemployed pay 1931- gave 4 billion to state goverbment to ser up schemes to provide work e.g the hoover dam

Question 53

ND- CCC?

Answer 53

men between 18-25 highered for environmental project payed $30 a month 2.5 millionpeople were helped

Question 54

ND- TVA

Answer 54

a series of dams built on the tennise river in hop eot irrigate the land

Question 55

ND2- WPA

Answer 55

provided 8 million jobs in 8 years brovided employment schemes

Question 56

ND2- SSA

Answer 56

gave finiancial help to the sick and disabled

Question 57

Boondoglind

Answer 57

worthless jobs made up

Question 58

who opposed the new deal

Answer 58

business men, the supreme court

Question 59

how many black americans were emplyed by the ccc

Answer 59

200000

Question 60

q1

Answer 60

Interpretation, quote, interpretation, quote however times 2

Question 61

q2

Answer 61

nature, origin, purpose, evidence times 2

Question 62

q3

Answer 62

contens, facts, contemt, facts times 2 conclusion

Question 63

q4

Answer 63

point evidence point evidence

Question 64

q5

Answer 64

theme, evidence explain times 2 use several examples to support the theme

Question 65

q6

Answer 65

Peel times 2 conclusion

Question 66

when was segregation in schools made illegal

Answer 66

1954

Question 67

when did rosa parks refuse to get out of her seqat

Answer 67

1955

Question 68

In what school and what year did 9 african americans try to attend

Answer 68

the all white high school in little rock arkensas 1957

Question 69

when was the civil rights act

Answer 69

1964

Question 70

how many black americanas fought in the second world war

Answer 70

around 1 million

Question 71

which act removed the jim crow laws

Answer 71

1965 voting acts right

Question 72

wich act made the womes pay the same

Answer 72

1963 equal pay act bu it didnt become part of the constitutuoion

Question 73

what was the name of the court case that made abortion safe and legal

Answer 73

roe vs wade 1973