Economic Boom

Question 1

When did Henry Ford pioneer the assembly line ?

Answer 1

1913

Question 2

When did mass production see a decrease in items

Answer 2

1914

Question 3

When did the USA enter WW1

Answer 3

1917

Question 4

When was Warren Harding president

Answer 4

1921-1923

Question 5

When was 5 million men unemployed

Answer 5

1921

Question 6

When was the economy recovered

Answer 6

1922

Question 7

how long was Calvin Coolidge president

Answer 7

1923-1929

Question 8

When did half the world have Henry Fords car

Answer 8

1925

Question 9

when was Herbert Hoover president

Answer 9

1929-1933

Question 10

When did most US cities have electricity

Answer 10

1929

Question 11

examples of who benefited from the boom

Answer 11

owners of consumer goods factories
Assembly line workers
white people in cities
speculators on the stock markets
early immigrants
middle class women
builders

Question 12

examples of who didn’t benefit from the boom

Answer 12

farmers
sharecroppers
black people
people in rural areas
coal miners
textile workers
new immigrants

Question 13

the causes of the boom

Answer 13

advertisement
hire purchase and credit
mass production
electricity
core goods
convenient shopping

Question 14

how did WW1 escalate the boom

Answer 14

they could trade with allies
countries borrowed money from the USA
by 1918 USA was the world leading economy
new technological advances

Question 15

Why did America try and stay out of WW1

Answer 15

The policies of neutrality and isolation

Question 16

how did electricity help the boom

Answer 16

it helped with the development of vacuum cleaners, fridges, washing machines, cookers, phones, radios and more

Question 17

how did core goods help

Answer 17

things like coal, wood and oil gave a good foundation for the US growth

Question 18

how did advertisement help

Answer 18

it produced a cycle of consumerism

Question 19

what did Harding promise

Answer 19

return to normality

Question 20

what did harding introduce in 1922

Answer 20

Fordney McCumber Tariff which raised import duties on goods coming into America from foreign countries this policy was known as protectionism

Question 21

what is rugged individualism

Answer 21

the American ideal that individuals are responsible for their own lives without any help from anyone else

Question 22

how many black american farmers lost their jobs in the 1920s

Answer 22

750,000

Question 23

where became overcrowded by black people

Answer 23

ghettos

Question 24

where was there competition with farmers

Answer 24

Canada,Australia, Argentina