America 1920/30s

Question 1

Why did Americans want to become isolationist?

Answer 1

1. Isolationism
2. Money
3. American Soldiers
4. German Immigrants
5. Empires
   People were worried about the economic cost of joining the League of Nations

Question 2

What does LACKPANTS (term used to describe economic American boom 1920s) stand for?

Answer 2

Laissez-faire
Assembly Line
Credit
Knowledge
Position (of USA)
Advertising
New consumer goods
Tariffs 
Shared confidence

Question 3

how many new immigrants went to America by 1920?

Answer 3

25 million

Question 4

How many cars were sold by 1919 and 1929?

Answer 4

9 million and 26 million

Question 5

What percentage of world goods were produced by america?

Answer 5

50%

Question 6

What was the Red Scare?

Answer 6

The Red Scare was the fear that communism would enter America.

Question 7

How many people left Europe for America between 1850 and 1914?

Answer 7

10% of Europe

Question 8

Who where the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)?

Answer 8

A white supremacist group founded in 1860 by confederate civil war veterans

Question 9

How many people were effected when Chicago went without law for 13 days due to racial reasons?

Answer 9

38 dead, 537, injured, 1000 without homes

Question 10

What were some long terms of when Chicago went 13 days without law?

Answer 10

efforts for racial harmony, Black people have a new willingness to fight for their rights

Question 11

What was Prohibition?

Answer 11

The banning of alcohol manufacturing, sale, and transportation

Question 12

What might be a figure to show that prohibition was successful?

Answer 12

beer consumption went down by half

Question 13

Why may prohibition not be successful?

Answer 13

Illegal supply went up, no regulations on alcohol

Question 14

How many (claimed) victims were there because of prohibition?

Answer 14

1360 people

Question 15

why may there be victims of prohibition?

Answer 15

There was a leap in organised crime

Question 16

When and what was the wall street crash

Answer 16

The wall street crash was on the 29th of October 1929 when 16.4 million shares were traded as stocks decreased.

Question 17

What were 6 causes of the Wall street crash?

Answer 17

Loss of confidence, over production, unequal society, speculation, laissez-faire, under consumption, trade tariffs

Question 18

What was speculation?

Answer 18

It was when people borrowed money for stocks, and then sold quickly to earn a small amount. This was performed by a lot of women and small banks

Question 19

Why did gang crime increase?

Answer 19

A lot of money could be made from bootleg alcohol

Question 20

what was the impact of the great depression?

Answer 20

unemployment - 12 million (25%) unemployed - 6000 men tried to sell apples in New York
Hoovervilles - huge shanty towns named hoovervilles appeared around major US cities as people moved for work

Question 21

What was the dust bowl?

Answer 21

A drought over the great plains Black Blizzards- like a snowstorm
Farms had been farmed too much and topsoil eroded away. Farmers moved to California - 375,000 immigrants

Question 22

How many people went on strike in Boston in the 1920s?

Answer 22

400,000

Question 23

How many people did J. Edgar Hoover have cases on and how many people did he deport?

Answer 23

60,000 cases, 10,000 people deported

Question 24

What is the Bonus march and when did it happen?

Answer 24

In May-July 1932, War veterans protested to get their war bonus before 1944. |Hoover ordered them to be dispersed, which was done violently by the American Army

Question 25

What was the new deal?

Answer 25

The way that Roosevelt tried to solve the great depression. It included fireside chats, end of prohibition and he won in a landslide 42/48 states in 1932

Question 26

What did Hoover believe in?

Answer 26

‘rugged individualism’-self help

Question 27

Name some Alphabet agencies.

Answer 27

FERA- Federal Emergency Relief Organisation
CCC- Civilian Conservation Corps
AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Administration
PWA- Public Works Administration
NRA- National Recovery Administration
EBA- Emergency Banking Act
TVA- Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 28

What were the 2 sides of opposing the new deal?

Answer 28

Not doing enough

Doing too much - Republicans, businesses, Like the USSR, Behaving like a dictator