America-Boom Flashcards
What were the republican policies
- laissez faire
- tariffs
- low taxation
- trusts
What was HPC
When you don’t pay for something all up front, you pay day by day like a mortgage
Who did not benefit from the boom?
- coal workers suffered from competition from new industries
- leather and textile workers suffered from the development of new man made materials
- men were paid $18 a week and women $9 for a 70 hour shift
- there were many strikes eg. The coal strike and the hunger March
- 5% were unemployed
- farmers
Why did farmers not benefit from the boom?
- Europe imported less food from the USA
- competition
- overproduction
- farm prices fell by 50%
- 6 million farmers were forced off their land in the 1920s
Facts to prove the Roaring 20s
- the average working week dropped by 3 hours
- average wages rose by 11%
- by 1922, there were 508 radio stations
- 100million cinema tickets were sold per week
What is a Flapper?
Western women who wore skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, wore makeup, drank, smoked, drove a automobile and treated sex as a casual manor
What’s a melting pot?
You arrive in America as one nationality, mix in with others and become ‘american’
How were African Americans bought into USA?
Due to the slave trade
Why was there immigrants in America?
They wanted to escape poverty in Eastern Europe, China and South America in search of a new life in America
How many people were unemployed after WW1?
1/4 of America
Who were the original settlers in North America?
The native Americans
What is a Anarchist?
Someone who wants to bring down the american government, a rebel.
What is the red scare?
The fear and reaction of America as the new immigrants from Russia were said to spread communism around America (Russia became communist in 1917)
Was their evidence of the red scare? What was it?
Yes. In 1919, 400,000 Americans went on strike, there were Race Riots in 25 towns. This showed america dangerous signs of communist interface.
Who was ‘Palmer’ (red scare)
He was the US attorney general. He tried to use the fear to build up his own political support, he accused most ethical groups of being communist. He also predicted that the red resolution will begin in 1920, nothing happened so no one liked him.
