America

Question 1

What and how many cars were there?

Answer 1

26 million, 1929

Question 2

What and how many radios?

Answer 2

10 million, 1929

Question 3

How much per day were Ford’s workers paid?

Answer 3

$5

Question 4

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

Answer 4

80,000

Question 5

Which suburb of Detroit grew by 700%

Answer 5

Grosse Point Park

Question 6

When and what was total farm income?

Answer 6

$22 to 12b, 1919 and 1928

Question 7

Which country was destroying the US farm industry?

Answer 7

Canada

Question 8

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

Answer 8

1 million

Question 9

In Elizabethtown, Tennessee, how much were girls paid in the textile factories and for how many hours a week?

Answer 9

56hours at a wage of 18centers per hour

Question 10

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

Answer 10

10% to the bottom 42%

Question 11

When and how many radio stations were there?

Answer 11

1922 and 508

Question 12

When and how much was NBC making?

Answer 12

1929 and $150 million

Question 13

When and how many new female workers were there?

Answer 13

1929 and 10 million

Question 14

When and what happened to the divorce rate?

Answer 14

1929 and it doubled to 200,000

Question 15

How many files did J Edgar Hoover have on suspects and how many proved to be truthful?

Answer 15

60,000 and 556

Question 16

When were Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and executed?

Answer 16

1920 and 1927

Question 17

When and hw many members did the KKK have?

Answer 17

1924, 4.5 million

Question 18

How much lower was life expectancy for blacks than whites?

Answer 18

11 years (48-59)

Question 19

On average, how many lynchings took place per year in the 1920s?

Answer 19

50

Question 20

Name a group in the temperance movement

Answer 20

Womens Temperance Christian Society

Anti-saloon league

Question 21

How many more votes could politicians gain in rural areas by supporting prohibition?

Answer 21

50%

Question 22

How many babies were allegedly smothered by drunken parents each year?

Answer 22

3000

Question 23

How many arrests did Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith make?

Answer 23

4932

Question 24

By what percentage did alcohol consumption decline in the 1920s?

Answer 24

30-50%

Question 25

How many unsolved murders were there in Chicago by 1929?

Answer 25

300

Question 26

How much did Capone make from speakeasies per year?

Answer 26

$60 million

Question 27

When was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and how many died?

Answer 27

14th February 1929 | 7 died

Question 28

What did George Remus give out to guests at his parties?

Answer 28

$25,000 diamond cufflinks

Question 29

What fraction of prohibition agents were corrupt?

Answer 29

1/12

Question 30

How many saloons and breweries were shut down during the prohibition era?

Answer 30

180,000 and 1800

Question 31

How much was made by gangsters in total during prohibition?

Answer 31

$2 billion

Question 32

How much money did Capone give to soup kitchens during | the Great Depression?

Answer 32

$300,000

Question 33

Give 2 aims of the New Deal

Answer 33

Get USA back to work, protect savings, provide for sick, old and unemployed, make industry and agriculture productive again

Question 34

What did the NRA set up to improve factories and how many factories signed up?

Answer 34

Blue Eagle Badge Scheme, 2 million

Question 35

How many black Americans were employed by the CCC?

Answer 35

200,000

Question 36

What was the EBA and what did it do?v

Answer 36

Emergency Banking Act | Setup 5000 trustworthy banks

Question 37

What nickname was given to useless jobs?

Answer 37

Boondoggling

Question 38

How much money did the PWA spend?

Answer 38

$3 billion

Question 39

How many women were employed by the CCC?

Answer 39

8000

Question 40

How many jobs did the WPA create in how many years?

Answer 40

8 million in 8 years

Question 41

Why was the AAA contradictory?

Answer 41

Taught farming methods yet set quotas

Question 42

Name 3 things the PWA built?

Answer 42

Dams, bridges, schools and airports

Question 43

In which month and year was FDR elected?

Answer 43

November, 1932

Question 44

How much did FERA give to states and name 3 things they bought?

Answer 44

$500 million | Soup kitchens, blankets and nurseries

Question 45

What did the share the wealth scheme want to cap personal fortunes at and annual income?

Answer 45

$3 million personal fortunes | $1 million annual income

Question 46

When and how many people were still unemployed?

Answer 46

1941, 6 million

Question 47

How many people were hired by the CCC?

Answer 47

2.5 million

Question 48

How many Supreme Court judges did FDR threaten to sack?

Answer 48

6

Question 49

How much did the US government spend per day on the war by 1945?

Answer 49

$250 million

Question 50

How many machine guns and warships did the USA produce during WW2?

Answer 50

2.6 million machine guns | 86,000 warships

Question 51

How many workers were there in factories during WW2?

Answer 51

14 million

Question 52

How many black Americans gained jobs during WW2?

Answer 52

2 million

Question 53

How many women joined the workforce during WW2?

Answer 53

7 million

Question 54

What policy did JFK announce in 1960 to improve the lives of ordinary Americans?

Answer 54

The Great Society

Question 55

When and where did Martin Luther King organise a march to encourage blacks to register to vote?

Answer 55

Selma, 1965

Question 56

What % of its income did bus companies lose as a result of the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?

Answer 56

65%

Question 57

During the 1950s, what percentage of the world’s goods did the USA produce?

Answer 57

50%

Question 58

How many US soldiers were there by 1950?

Answer 58

600,000

Question 59

Which famous boxer joined the Nation of Islam?

Answer 59

Muhammed Ali

Question 60

By how much was the US standard of living higher than people in Britain?

Answer 60

3x

Question 61

When and what was the act of government from which banned literacy tests when registering to vote?

Answer 61

Voting Rights Act, 1965

Question 62

When and how many blacks and whites were involved in the March on Washington in?

Answer 62

200,000 B 50,000 W 1963

Question 63

What did the 1954 Brown vs Board of Education Topeka Act introduce?

Answer 63

Segregated schools had to allow black children in ‘with all deliberate speed’

Question 64

When and how many new homes were built?

Answer 64

1965, 240,000

Question 65

During the 1950s what happened to the USA’s GNP?

Answer 65

It doubled

Question 66

When and what did the Supreme Court make available to unmarried couples for the first time?

Answer 66

1972, contraception

Question 67

When and what % of households had a TV?

Answer 67

1958, 83%

Question 68

Which group had 2000 members and were effectively a private, black army?

Answer 68

Black Panthers

Question 69

How much did President Johnson spend on education?

Answer 69

$1.5 billion

Question 70

What was the name of the town in Arkansas which failed to allow black students to attend and how many were denied?

Answer 70

Little Rock, 9

Question 71

When and which president signed the Civil Rights Act?

Answer 71

President Johnson, 1964

Question 72

What percentages of blacks were registered to vote in Mississippi in the 1950s?

Answer 72

5%

Question 73

How much did US's total industrial production increase by in the 1920s?

Answer 73

50%

Question 74

How many radios are cars were bought on credit?

Answer 74

8/10 radio | 6/10 cars

Question 75

When and how many people were speculating on the stock market?

Answer 75

1929, 20 million

Question 76

When and how much were people were speculating on the stock market?

Answer 76

1929, 9 billion

Question 77

What happened to road length?

Answer 77

It doubled

Question 78

When and what happened to workers wages?

Answer 78

1919 and 1927 | Rose from $1150 to $1300

Question 79

What did unemployment stay at during the boom?

Answer 79

4%

Question 80

How much did the top 5% of us own?

Answer 80

33% of the wealth

Question 81

How much did most americans make per year?

Answer 81

Less than $2000

Question 82

How many farmers were evicted during the great depression?

Answer 82

1 in 20

Question 83

When and what was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 83

1947 | A plan that gave $17 billion to European countries