Boom & Depression

Question 1

What are the 8 reasons the boom was so big?

Answer 1

• mass production
• consumer culture
• government policies
• Credit
• raw materials
• mass marketing
• stock marketing
• electrification

Question 2

how many cars sold in 1919 and 1929?

Answer 2

1919 - 9mil

1929 - 26mil

Question 3

how many radios sold in 1920 compared to

1930?

Answer 3

1920 - 60,000

1930 - 20mil

Question 4

how many telephones sold in 1915 compared to 1930?

Answer 4

1915 - 10mil

1930 - 20mil

Question 5

For every how many fridges in 1921 were how many in 1929

Answer 5

for every 1 in 1921 was 167 in 1929

Question 6

How much was a model T ford in the 1920’s and what did it go down from in 1908?

Answer 6

$300 in 1927

$1000 in 1908

Question 7

By the mid 1920s how many cars were being made everyday?

Answer 7

7500

Question 8

How much did USA GDP rise by from 1922 to 1929?

Answer 8

40%

Question 9

how many immigrants entered America in 1900-1920?

Answer 9

14mil

Question 10

What percentages of homes in America had each item in 1920 and 1930
1- radio
2- vacuum
3- dish washer

Answer 10

item: 1920 - 1930
radio: less than 1% - 40%
vacuum: 9% - 30%
dishwasher: 8% - 24%

Question 11

What was the name of the first tariff America introduced?

Answer 11

Fordney-McCumber

Question 12

Name 2 old industries (not including agriculture) that went into decline?

Answer 12

coal

cotton

Question 13

Name 3 industries that were accelerated by the boom?

Answer 13

contsruction
steel
Automobiles

Question 14

Give 5 reasons why agriculture went into decline:

Answer 14

1- Demobilisation in Europe
2- Canada and Argentina began selling to Europe without tariffs
3- most countries imposed tariffs back on America
4- Food patterns changed to more exotic/luxury food items
5-Prohibition stopped the production of vineyards and barley massively as demand for legal production fell

Question 15

what did the price of a hay bale fall to and when?

Answer 15

1920 $183 - 1929 $0.38

Question 16

by 1924 how many farmers were bankrupt?

Answer 16

600,000

Question 17

What were the main two immigration quotas and what year were they introduced?

Answer 17

1921 - Emergency Quota act - Stating on 3% of each nationalities population that were in America in 1910 can enter,
1924 - National Origin Act - Stating changing it to 2% of the population in 1890 and all Asians were banned from entering

Question 18

Why was Henry Food so successful? [6marks] (2 points with evidence)

Answer 18

P1 - his assembly lines allowed mass production so 7500 cars a day and 1 car every 10 seconds
P2 - he treated his workers well with a 5 dollar day (nearly double the going rate) for 8 hour days and a 40 hour week with a two day weekend so they could have 1 day for church and 1 day to use their cars

Question 19

What 3 states banned the teaching of evolution?

Answer 19

Tennessee Arkansas Mississippi

Question 20

What was the monkey Trial?

Answer 20

Tennessee in a town called Dayton and it was a teacher called John Scopes put on trial for teaching evolution and was fined 100$ but overall the trial is seen as a success as it showed the ridiculousness of law against teaching evolution

Question 21

Who were the 3 presidents in the 1920s

Answer 21

Harding, Hover and Coolidge

Question 22

Who founded the congressional Union, what was it and when was it?

Answer 22

Alice Paul and Lucy burns created the Congressional Union of Women Suffrage to protest a constitutional amendment to allow women to vote in 1913

Question 23

what was the 19th amendment?

Answer 23

the amendment saying that women had equal voting rights to men

Question 24

What was the crime Sacco and Vanzetti were put on trial for?

Answer 24

armed robbery on April 15th south braine tree Massachusetts resulting in the death of 2 people.

Question 25

What year was the crime Sacco and Vanzetti were caused of and What year was they sentence?

Answer 25

1920

1929

Question 26

What year was the crime Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of and What year was they sentence?

Answer 26

1920

1927

Question 27

What was the evidence for and against Sacco and Vanzetti?

Answer 27

evidence for the defense was they couldn’t speak english and police questioning was under duress, 107 people said they werent guilty, it is no crime to carry a gun
However they were found carrying weapons which matched the weapons used and 61 people said they were guilty as well as Vanzetti was guilty of armed robbery in 1919

Question 28

how many rival gang members did Al Capone kill in the St Valentine day massacre and when was it?

Answer 28

1929 and 7 were killed

Question 29

What was the act that brought in prohibition? (not an amendment)

Answer 29

Volstead Act

Question 30

Who enforced prohibition and who was a major player?

Answer 30

prohibition Bureau and Wayne Wheeler

Question 31

What was the WONPR?

Answer 31

the Women’s Organisation for National Prohibition Reform

Question 32

What did WONPR do and how many people joined the movement?

Answer 32

they protested against prohibition and has 1.5 million members

Question 33

Who lead the WONPR?

Answer 33

Pauline Sabin