Economic Boom 1920's

Question 1

What was the economic boom in the 1920s?

Answer 1

A period of rapid economic growth/expansion

Question 2

What does SHELDAC stand for?

Answer 2

S-Stock market
H-hire purchase 
E-Exports
L-Lassiez faire
D-Disposable income 
A-Assembly line
C-Condsumer goods

Question 3

How many cars were bought on hire purchase?

Answer 3

6/10

Question 4

what is an example of a US export?

Answer 4

Coal from Kentucky- around 42%

Question 5

What is an example of Disposable income?

Answer 5

Henry Ford’s workers were payed 5 US dollars a day.

Question 6

How many cars were being produced every minute because of assembly lines?

Answer 6

1 car every minute

Question 7

what was the biggest car production factory called?

Answer 7

Rouge Plant in Michigan

Question 8

How did the car industry help other industries?

Answer 8

Th cars used 80% rubber,20% steel, 75% plate glass and 65%leather -of US resources

Question 9

How much was a Model T?

Answer 9

1909-£1200

1929-£295(very affordable)

Question 10

How did shifts change because of Henry Ford?

Answer 10

because there were 3 different shifts(morning, afternoon and night) the daily hours reduced by 1hour going from 9hours to 8hours

Question 11

What were some features of the Model T?

Answer 11

> it went 40/45 mph

>15.5Million were made by 1929

Question 12

What were some of the failing industries?

Answer 12

Nylon- cotton industry
Coal mining
farming- over produced for war
2Mil unemployed

Question 13

how many union workers were there?

Answer 13

1920-5.1Million
1929-3.6Million
(As work places would fire employees and be violent if caught at a strike)

Question 14

What are some examples of low wages?

Answer 14

> In textile industry women were payed 18cents an hour and worked for 56hours
There was no minimum wage, sick, unemployed, state pension or healthcare pay because of Republican policies
Coal miners were payed 1/3 or 33% of the national average wages

Question 15

What were conditions like in poor rural areas?

Answer 15

> Farming and coal mining only earned 1/3 of what other workers were earning
10% had electricity/electrical lights and water supplies
6 million left the countryside and moved to the city(rural-urban migration) in the 1920s

Question 16

What was it like for other races in the 1920s?

Answer 16

African Americans were treated badly and experienced racism along side low wages and low skilled jobs
Native Americans had their land taken from them, were poorly educated and had a lower life expectancy than other races. They also were forced onto land called reservations so that infrastructure building could take place.

Question 17

What was prohibition?

Answer 17

The ban of alcohol from 1920-33 under President Hoover

Question 18

What 3 reasons were the main causes of why prohibition was introduced?

Answer 18

> Religion-Women’s Christian Temperance Union-concerned that drinking=sin. also linked to prostitution, gambling and flappers
Social-Anti-Saloon League-concerned that there wasn’t enough money for the family and also drinking linked to domestic violence
Xenophobia-White Anglo Saxon Protestants(WASP’s)- fear o foreign items, also scared of communism-Vodka was Russian, Beer was German and Whiskey was Irish

Question 19

How was crime related to prohibition?

Answer 19

> Gangsters like Al Capone, Bill McCoy and Bugs Moran would sell alcohol and bribe police.
Capone donated $250000 to Chicago mayor Thompson and also controlled the sells of 10000 speakeasies
St Valentines Massacre 1929- 7 deaths of Moran’s gang

Question 20

How did deaths relate to prohibition?

Answer 20

> deaths from alcohol poisoning increased from 98 in 1920 to 800 in 1926
‘Jackass Brandy’ caused internal bleeding and ‘Soda Pop Moon’ was poisonous

Question 21

Was prohibition successful?

Answer 21

> Alcohol consumption per person fell by 30%
Deaths from alcoholism fell by 80%
Male liver failure dropped by 10%

Question 22

How many prohibition agents were there?

Answer 22

1500 and in 1930-3000

Question 23

How many agents took bribes?

Answer 23

1/12 took bribes

Question 24

What were the Immigration Acts?

Answer 24

Immigration Quota Act 1921

National Origins Act 1924

Question 25

How many Immigrants did the US accept during the 1920’s?

Answer 25

At the start only accepted 357,000(3%)

In 1924 changed limit to 150,000(1%)

Question 26

What did the National Origins Act do?

Answer 26

> Banned Asian countries
Looked at ethnic background
Restricted South and Eastern Europeans