Fact And Figures Flashcards
Cara bought on credit
6/10
By 1930, how many houses had a radio
40%
How many americans used mail order
1/3
How many radios in 1920
60,000
How many radios in 1929
10 mill
Americans owned car in 1930
1 in every 5
How many ppl employed in car industry
Half million workers
Glass production in cars
75%
Steel production in cars
20%
In 1919 how many cars
9m
In 1929 how many cars
26 m
How many Model T fords had been manufactured by 1927
15m
How many flights in 1930
162,000
In 1927, how many cars made every 10 sec
1
Number of americans affected by farming probs
Directly affected: 60,000,000
How many americans unemployed due to farming probs
750,000
Unemployment % in 1920-1929
5%
% of americans living below poverty line in 1920?
40%
Baseball stars
Babe ruth
When was the fist talkie
1927
Typical jazz dance
Charlestone
How many women had jobs in 1929
10m
In 1924, how many ppl joined the KKK
5m
Film that glorified the KKK
The birth of a nation
Hollywood stars
Charlie Chaplin, Rudolf Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks
When was the first national network broadcasted?
1926 (NBC)
What does WASPS stand for
White Anglo Saxons Protestants
From 1920 to 1929, how many people went to the cinema?
95 million ( more than doubled)
How many houses had a radio In chicago, 1930
2/3
In 1919, how many ppl killed with a bomb in a church
10 ppl
How many cities were bombed in june 1919
7
Who was Mitchel Palmer
Led the case of Red Scare ( Justice Department)
From 1919 to 1920 how many immigrants deported bcs of communist ideas
10,000
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti
2 anarchists, italian
When were saco & vanzetti murdered? And why?
1927
Because they were suspicous of murder and robbery
( self-confessed anarchists and communist)
When was the emergency quota bank introduced?
1924
How many immigrants entering country 1900-1910 ( per yr )
1m /yr
1929 how many immigrants entering country per yr
Reduction of ..% ?
150,000
Reduction of 80%
Divorce rates increase from 1914-1929?
From 100,000 to 205,000
Who creates the UNIA
For what was it?
marcus garving
Encourage african american buisinesses, and support them
1st unniversity for AA
Howard
Who was Paul Robenson?
Famous AA actor
Famous AA writer
Langston Huges
Web Dubois created the ….?
What was it for?
Created the NAACP
Campaigned against lynching & segregation for AA
Decrease in the number of Native Americans (1920)
1.5 m to 250,000
When were NA granted the citizenship
1924
How many native americans fought in WW1 ?
12,000
When were NA allowed to vote
1920
What was the Merriam Report
When introduced
1934
Improve laws of NA
How much did the income dropped during the boom for the agriculute industy
22bl- 13bl
Hoe much unemployment in 1920
5%
Night club were Jazz was danced
Cotton Club
Percentage of semi skilled workers owning a car in chicago in 1920s
3%
How much did Babe Ruth earn
80K
When was the monkey trial?
1925
How much were fined the anti-evolutionists after trial?
100$
Numb of farms lost from 1920-1930
1m
The production of barley decreased …%?
90%
When did the women could vote for the 1st time?
1920
Americans on strike 1929
10m
How many ppl listening to the radio , 1927
50m
Numbers of members of the NAACP in 1919
90,000
Wages rise by 1920
11%
Who was John Scopes
Bio teacher
When was the monkey trial?
1925
Who was William Jennings Bryan
Leader of fundamentalists
In how many states did the Anti-evolution lon of america was implemented?
In what year?
6 states
1924
When was the Volstead Act?
What was it?
1920(Jan)
Prohobited the manufacturing, transportation and selling of intoxicationg liquors
How many agents were being traded
1/2
How many agents were dismissed for corruption
1/12
How much did Alcapone made in 1 yr
60m
How much illegal alcohol came from Canada
2/3
How much did gansters make in a year?
2bl/yr
How many assinations b/w 1926-1927 by gangland?
130
How many did murders did the Alcapone gang make to to the power of ganglands ic Chicago by 1929?
300
When was the St valentines murder?
How many ppl killed?
What group of ganglands assesinted the other gangland?
1920
7 ppl
Alcapones men murdered men from Bugsy Moran’s gang
How many stills closed?
280,000