america

Question 1

what was the name of the first mass produced car

Answer 1

T ford

Question 2

how many cars in 1919

Answer 2

9 mil

Question 3

how many cars by 1929

Answer 3

26mil

Question 4

how many radios where brought on credit

Answer 4

8/10

Question 5

how did womens lives improve

Answer 5

gave them jobs from ww1, wore more daring clothes and could smoke in public

Question 6

how where women’s lives still bad

Answer 6

payed less than men, considered unelectable, couldn’t afford the latest trends

Question 7

how did black americans lives improve

Answer 7

black capitalist movement , they could set up there own business

Question 8

how many member where there in the naacp by 1919

Answer 8

90000

Question 9

how where black americans lives still bad

Answer 9

no good jobs or education, life expectancy was 48 while whites was 59 in 1930

Question 10

what was the boom

Answer 10

progress which lead to mass production of good and huge amounts of consumers

Question 11

what benefitted the boom

Answer 11

growing cities- more to build, morals-sex outside of marriage became common, cars- let them do the basics

Question 12

prohibition gains

Answer 12

death rate decreased from 30-50%, 30% decrease in alcohol consumption

Question 13

prohibition losses

Answer 13

people set up there own bars (speakies), al capone and other gangs made around 2$bil all together as they provided it, some people consuming even more alchol

Question 14

losses of the boom

Answer 14

farmers income dropped from $22bil in 1919 to $13bil in 1928 (told to work in urban areas), black segregation, coal steel workers had low wages, 42% of americans under poverty line

Question 15

what is the red scare

Answer 15

fear of communism, immigrants coming over from italy giving them communist beliefs

Question 16

what happened in the red scare

Answer 16

400000 workers went on strike to complain about low wages and bad conditions

Question 17

what is the eba

Answer 17

emergency banking act, set up 5000 trustworthy banks

Question 18

what is aaa

Answer 18

agricultural adjustment administration, helped reduce produce and raise prices

Question 19

what is the nra

Answer 19

national recovery administration, improved working conditions and outlawed child labour

Question 20

what were some of the economical effects of ww2

Answer 20

workers unemployment disappeared, everyone had jobs, getting a loan was introduced, farmers income grew by 250%, 1944 7mil women joined the work force

Question 21

what where social effects of ww2

Answer 21

shortage in shops. taxes increased, 15mil people joined the war effort, 1/3 workers were women 1944

Question 22

what was the montgomery bus boycott

Answer 22

buses lost 65% of its income after people stopped taking the bus after rosa parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white person

Question 23

what was martin luther kings march on washington

Answer 23

more than 200000 black and white people came to have a non violent protest about black peoples rights and stopping segregation

Question 24

causes of the boom

Answer 24

ww1, industries

Question 25

how many radios brought on credit

Answer 25

8/19

Question 26

how many cars brought on credit

Answer 26

6/10

Question 27

how much did the industrial production increase by 1920

Answer 27

50%

Question 28

how many cars made per year 1929

Answer 28

4.8mil

Question 29

how many cars made per year 1900

Answer 29

4000

Question 30

what’s laissez faire

Answer 30

government not interfering with businesses and letting them grow

Question 31

boom, how much were unskilled workers payed at t-ford

Answer 31

$5 a day

Question 32

boom, where did unskilled workers get jobs from

Answer 32

building sky scrapers , and roads (doubled)

Question 33

boom, what % of glass produced went to cars

Answer 33

75%

Question 34

how’d women benefit in the boom

Answer 34

number of workers increased to 10mil, they started buying shares, and got jobs from war

Question 35

boom, how were black americans affected

Answer 35

first fired, last hired, 1 million black farm workers lost their job, moved to cities

Question 36

how were farmers lives affected in boom

Answer 36

income dropped from $22 to 13 bil, Canadian farmers made cheaper goods, over production

Question 37

1929 how much money spent on shares

Answer 37

9 bil

Question 38

how much did female employment increase during boom

Answer 38

24%

Question 39

how many people did river rouge employ

Answer 39

80,000

Question 40

what % did household w toilets grow from

Answer 40

20% to 52%

Question 41

how much was a bushel of wheat in 1920 to 1931

Answer 41

$233 to $32

Question 42

how many farmers forced to find work in rural areas

Answer 42

6 mil

Question 43

how much were coal and steel workers paid

Answer 43

1/3 of national avarage

Question 44

where did 10% of wealth go to

Answer 44

the bottom 42% of the population

Question 45

what % of population lived below poverty line 1920

Answer 45

42%

Question 46

what was a hire purchase schemes

Answer 46

buy now pay later so ppl could buy stuff that was previously out of their reach

Question 47

what did better jobs and wages cause

Answer 47

demand for more food and faster production methods

Question 48

how many licensed radio stations from1921 to 1922

Answer 48

1 to 508

Question 49

what happened to divorce rate women

Answer 49

doubled

Question 50

what could women now do they couldn’t before

Answer 50

smoke wear makeup vote drank

Question 51

limitations of womens lives in 1920s

Answer 51

got the vote but no power, still payed less for same job

Question 52

how much were women earning in 1920

Answer 52

18 cent per hr for a 56 hr week

Question 53

what did the naacp do 1920

Answer 53

end racial segregation and lynching

Question 54

how many branches and me never did naacp have 1920

Answer 54

300 branches 90000 members

Question 55

how many lynchings per year 1920

Answer 55

50

Question 56

life expectancy for black compare to white in 1930

Answer 56

48 to 59

Question 57

limitations of black lives improving 1920

Answer 57

no jobs/education, poverty

Question 58

red scare, what was melting pot theory

Answer 58

immigrants would forget their culture and be put in a pot to return as americans

Question 59

example of red scare

Answer 59

sacco and vanceyyi