America - BOOM

Question 1

What’s the name of a jazz musician of the 1920s?

Answer 1

Louis Armstrong

Question 2

What’s the name of a male film star of the 1920s?

Answer 2

Rudolph Valentino

Question 3

What did average incomes increase by in the 1920s?

Answer 3

27%

Question 4

What did total industrial production increase by in the 1920s?

Answer 4

50%

Question 5

Telephone 1915 =

Answer 5

10 million phones

Question 6

Telephones 1930 =

Answer 6

20 million phones

Question 7

What happened to the road length in the 1920s?

Answer 7

It doubled

Question 8

What happened to Queens in the 1920s?

Answer 8

Doubled in size

Question 9

What was considered a symbol of wealth?

Answer 9

Skyscrapers

Question 10

What was the American state of mind?

Answer 10

Spending is good

Question 11

How many Americans owned a car?

Answer 11

1:5

Question 12

Name 2 female Hollywood stars of the 1920s?

Answer 12

Clara Bow and Theda Bara

Question 13

Name 4 groups that benefited from the BOOM

Answer 13

• Women
• Immigrants
• Builders
• Factory owners

Question 14

Name a group of people who did not benefit from the BOOM

Answer 14

Farmers

Question 15

What was made for the first time in Hollywood in 1927?

Answer 15

Talkies

Question 16

What were urban women known as in the 1920s?

Answer 16

Flappers

Question 17

What percentage of cars were bought on credit?

Answer 17

60%

Question 18

What percentage of River Rouge workers were immigrants?

Answer 18

70%

Question 19

How many men worked at River Rouge?

Answer 19

8,000

Question 20

How many Model T’s were made per day?

Answer 20

2,500

Question 21

Who was responsible for the industrial efficiency movement?

Answer 21

Fredrick Taylor

Question 22

What was the 1st mass produced car called?

Answer 22

Model T Ford

Question 23

How much were Ford’s workers paid per day?

Answer 23

$5

Question 24

How many cars were sold in 1919?

Answer 24

9 million

Question 25

How many cars were sold in 1929?

Answer 25

26 million

Question 26

How many radios were sold in 1919?

Answer 26

60,000

Question 27

How many radios were sold in 1929?

Answer 27

10 million

Question 28

What percentage of radios were bought on credit?

Answer 28

80%

Question 29

What was the Ford McCumber Tariff on (1922)?

Answer 29

Food

Question 30

Name 3 Republican presendents

Answer 30

- Harding - Hoover - Coolidge

Question 31

Name 5 Republican policies

Answer 31

- Laissez faire - Trusts - Tariffs - Normalcy - Low tax

Question 32

Who said a ‘Chicken in every pot and a car in every garage’

Answer 32

Herbert Hoover

Question 33

What percentage of farmers had electricity in the 1920s?

Answer 33

<10%

Question 34

Name 2 controversial Hollywood films of the 1820s

Answer 34

- Up in Mabel’s room | - When a woman sins

Question 35

Name a dance associated with Jazz in the 1920s

Answer 35

The Charleston

Question 36

What was the average worker wage in 1919?

Answer 36

$1158 per year

Question 37

What was the average worker wage in 1928?

Answer 37

$1304 per year

Question 38

Competition from which country helped put American farms out of business?

Answer 38

Canada

Question 39

How many radio stations were there by 1922?

Answer 39

508

Question 40

What percentage of semi-skilled workers owned a car?

Answer 40

3%

Question 41

How many millionaires were there in 1914?

Answer 41

7,000

Question 42

How many millionaires were there in 1928?

Answer 42

35,000

Question 43

How many people were unemployed in 1921?

Answer 43

11.9 million

Question 44

How many people were unemployed in 1926?

Answer 44

1.9 million

Question 45

How many Model T Fords were made between 1908 and 1925?

Answer 45

15 million

Question 46

What was the increase percentage of vacuums in households?

Answer 46

9% to 30%

Question 47

What was the percentage increase of femal employment during the boom?

Answer 47

24%

Question 48

Between 1919 and 1928 how much did the income of farmers drop?

Answer 48

$22 to $13 billion

Question 49

What was the saying about the employment of black immigrants?

Answer 49

Last to be hired and the first to be fired

Question 50

How many black farm labourers lost work in the 1920s?

Answer 50

1 million

Question 51

Which industries went on strike in 1918 and 1920 due to low pay and bad conditions?

Answer 51

Coal and steel

Question 52

Which industrie’s wages were 1/3 of the national average?

Answer 52

Coal

Question 53

What was the minimum wage required per week for the basic standard of living?

Answer 53

$48

Question 54

When was the Hays Code introduced and what was it for?

Answer 54

1930 | Censorship