1920s America

Question 1

Why did the price of food fall?

Answer 1

Farmers produced more food than was needed

Question 2

How many African Americans lost their jobs?

Answer 2

Almost 1 million

Question 3

How many American families lived below the poverty line?

Answer 3

Over half

Question 4

In early 1929 what percentage of American people enjoyed 1/3 of the nations wealth?

Answer 4

5%

Question 5

What was the 1917 immigration law?

Answer 5

It requires all foreigners to take a literacy test to prove they could read English. Prevented poorer countries from entering the USA

Question 6

What was the 1921 immigration quota law?

Answer 6

Limited the maximum number of immigrants allowed in the USA to 357,000 per year. Limited the number of each ethnic group emigrating to 3% of the number already in the USA by 1910. In favour of northern and Eastern Europe

Question 7

What was the 1924 national origins act?

Answer 7

Further reduced the quota to 2% of the population in 1890.

Question 8

What was the 1929 immigration act?

Answer 8

Number of immigrants entering the USA each year reduced to 150,000.

Question 9

What year did the US Supreme Court did legal approval for the Jim Crow laws?

Answer 9

1896

Question 10

What were the Jim Crow laws?

Answer 10

Laws passed in 1896 which allowed African Americans to be inferior and to be exploited by white Americans

Question 11

When was the KKK formed?

Answer 11

1866

Question 12

When was the KKK reformed?

Answer 12

1915

Question 13

Who did the KKK attack?

Answer 13

Catholics Jews and African Americans

Question 14

How many members did the KKK have in early 1920s?

Answer 14

5 million members

Question 15

What did the KKK believe founded American greatness? I

Answer 15

The achievements of WASPS

Question 16

When did the influence of the KKK decrease?

Answer 16

In the later 1920s when a well publicised court case about one of its leaders being convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of a woman on a train.

Question 17

How many speakeasies did Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith raid in the first half of the 1920s?

Answer 17

3,000

Question 18

Who was the most notorious gang leader?

Answer 18

Al Capone

Question 19

How many men did Al Capone employ?

Answer 19

Nearly 1,000 many with guns

Question 20

How many murders have been linked to gang activities?

Answer 20

Over 200

Question 21

When was the St Valentine’s Day Massacre?

Answer 21

1929

Question 22

What happened during the St Valentine’s Day Massacre?

Answer 22

Some of Al Capone’s gang gunned down six members of the rival Bugs Moran gang

Question 23

When did prohibition end?

Answer 23

1933

Question 24

Who promised to repeal the prohibition law in the 1932 presidential election?

Answer 24

Roosevelt

Question 25

What did young people gain in the 1920s?

Answer 25

Freedom

Question 26

Which presidential election did Wilson lose to the Republican Harding?

Answer 26

The 1920 election

Question 27

What was the advantage of the assembly line?

Answer 27

Cars could be produced in 1/10 of the time they used to be

Question 28

How many cars were there in America by 1930?

Answer 28

30 million

Question 29

How many jobs directly/indirectly relied on the motor industry?

Answer 29

4 million

Question 30

How much did share prices go up by in the 1920s?

Answer 30

300%

Question 31

What were the 5 main long term causes of the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 31

- over production in agriculture - over production in consumer goods - lack of credit control - effects of the tariff policy - unequal distribution of wealth

Question 32

When was the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 32

1929

Question 33

What were the immediate consequences of the crash?

Answer 33

- many went bankrupt as they couldn't pay back loans they used to buy their now worthless shares - some homeowners lost their homes as they couldn't pay mortgages - people lost savings as banks collapsed - farmers lost property as couldn't pay bank loans

Question 34

How many banks stopped trading between 1929 and 1933?

Answer 34

11,000

Question 35

What happened when demands for goods of all types fell?

Answer 35

Production fell and so did wages and jobs

Question 36

What was the 29th October 1929 called?

Answer 36

Black Tuesday

Question 37

When did the price of shares begin to slowly fall?

Answer 37

September 1929