America

Question 1

How many radio stations were there by 1922?

Answer 1

508

Question 2

How many cars were there by 1929?

Answer 2

How many cars were there by 1929?

Question 3

How many radios by 1929?

Answer 3

10 million

Question 4

How much per day were Ford’s workers paid?

Answer 4

$5 per day

Question 5

How many people worked at Ford’s River Rouge Plant?

Answer 5

80,000

Question 6

Which suburb of Detroit grew by 700%

Answer 6

Grosse Point Park

Question 7

What % of cars were bought on credit?

Answer 7

60%

Question 8

List two industries that prospered during the boom

Answer 8

Cars, electricals, construction

Question 9

What was total farm income in 1919 and 1928?

Answer 9

$22 billion and $13 billion

Question 10

Which country was destroying the US farm industry?

Answer 10

Canada

Question 11

How many black farm labourers lost their jobs in the 1920s?

Answer 11

1 million

Question 12

What percentage of wealth went to bottom percentage of the population?

Answer 12

10% to bottom 42%

Question 13

How many new female workers were there by 1929?

Answer 13

10 million

Question 14

Name 2 Republican policies the New Deal was against

Answer 14

Laissez faire and rugged individualism

Question 15

How many Supreme Court judges did FDR threaten to sack?

Answer 15

6

Question 16

What did Republicans claim had crippled FDR?

Answer 16

An STD

Question 17

In which month and year did FDR become President?

Answer 17

March, 1933

Question 18

Give two examples of violent attacks during the Red Scare

Answer 18

Any three from:
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.

Question 19

How many immigrants arrived from Britain and Germany during the 1920s?

Answer 19

5 million and 4.4 million

Question 20

When were Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and executed?

Answer 20

1920 and 1927

Question 21

How much money did Kennedy’s New Frontier provide to businesses to create jobs?

Answer 21

$900 million

Question 22

How did Kennedy’s New Frontier create more jobs?

Answer 22

By increasing government spending on the military

Question 23

How many houses did Johnson’s Great Society build in 1965?

Answer 23

240,000 new homes

Question 24

How much money did Johnson’s Great Society spend on improving houses?

Answer 24

$2.9 billion

Question 25

What did Johnson's Great Society change the minimum wage to?

Answer 25

$1.25 to $1.40

Question 26

What did the judge rule in the Brown vs Board of Education case?

Answer 26

All schools should be desegregated ‘with all deliberate speed’.

Question 27

What happened because of the Montogomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 27

The bus company lost 65% of its income

Question 28

How many people attended MLK's speech?

Answer 28

200,000 blacks | 50,000 whites

Question 29

What did the Equal Pay Act in 1963 state?

Answer 29

Women should be paid the same as men

Question 30

What as wrong with the Equal Pay Act in 1963?

Answer 30

There were many exceptions leading to women being paid 70% of men's wages

Question 31

In 1936, how many votes did FDR win?

Answer 31

60%

Question 32

What did New Deal agencies do to smaller companies?

Answer 32

Put them out of business

Question 33

Give an example of a New Deal agency which put a company out of business?

Answer 33

The TVA provided cheap electricity to southern states which meant private energy companies couldn't compete

Question 34

Why were the boondoggle jobs 'hated on'?

Answer 34

Because people saw them as useless and costing too much money

Question 35

Why was FDR called a dictator

Answer 35

Because he threatened to create 6 more judges in the supreme court

Question 36

Why were some agencies shut down?

Answer 36

Because they undermined state laws and imposed too much control on people's lives

Question 37

What agencies were shut down because they had too much control?

Answer 37

AAA NRA PWA

Question 38

How many files did J Edgar Hoover build up on immigrants who were accused of being communists?

Answer 38

60,000

Question 39

In 1924, what did the Johnson Reid Act do?

Answer 39

Fixed immigration at 150,000 and Eastern European and Asian migration was banned.