GCSE USA Booklet 1

Question 1

How many cars were there by 1929?

Answer 1

26 million

Question 2

How many radios by 1929?

Answer 2

10 million

Question 3

How much per day were Ford’s workers paid?

Answer 3

$5 per day

Question 4

How many people worked at Ford’s River Rouge Plant?

Answer 4

80,000

Question 5

Which suburb of Detroit grew by 700%

Answer 5

Grosse Point Park

Question 6

What % of cars were bought on credit?

Answer 6

60%

Question 7

What did Sears Roebuck start?

Answer 7

Mail Order catalogues

Question 8

List two industries that prospered during the boom

Answer 8

Cars, electricals, construction

Question 9

What was total farm income in 1919 and 1928?

Answer 9

$22 billion and $13 billion

Question 10

Which country was destroying the US farm industry?

Answer 10

Canada

Question 11

How many black farm labourers lost their jobs in the 1920s?

Answer 11

1 million

Question 12

What percentage of semi-skilled workers owned a car?

Answer 12

3%

Question 13

In Elizabethtown, Tennessee, how much were girls paid in the textile factories and for how many hours a week?

Answer 13

18c per hour for a 56 hour week

Question 14

What percentage of wealth went to bottom percentage of the population?

Answer 14

10% to bottom 42%

Question 15

What was introduced by 36 states to control how relationships were shown in Hollywood films and when was this?

Answer 15

Hays Code, 1930

Question 16

How many radio stations were there by 1922?

Answer 16

508

Question 17

By 1929, how much was NBC making per year?

Answer 17

$150 million

Question 18

The first talkie, The Jazz Singer, was released in which year?

Answer 18

1927

Question 19

How many new female workers were there by 1929?

Answer 19

10 million

Question 20

What happened to the divorce rate by 1929?

Answer 20

Doubled to 200,000

Question 21

How many immigrants arrived from Britain and Germany during the 1920s?

Answer 21

5 million and 4.4 million

Question 22

Give two examples of violent attacks during the Red Scare

Answer 22

April 1919: bomb killed 10 in Milwaukee church, May 1919: letter bombs sent to 36 Americans, June 1919: Attorney General Mitchell Palmer’s house was blown up.

Question 23

How many files did J Edgar Hoover have on suspects and how many proved to be truthful?

Answer 23

60,000 and 556

Question 24

When were Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and executed?

Answer 24

1920 and 1927

Question 25

How many members did the KKK have by 1924?

Answer 25

4.5 million

Question 26

Name one of the two states that had a KKK governor

Answer 26

Oregon and Oklahoma

Question 27

How many branches and members did the NAACP have by 1919?

Answer 27

300 and 90,000

Question 28

How much lower was life expectancy for blacks than whites?

Answer 28

11 years (48 compared to 59)

Question 29

Which organisation did Marcus Garvey set up and how many members by 1921?

Answer 29

UNIA and 1 million

Question 30

On average, how many lynchings took place per year in the 1920s?

Answer 30

50

Question 31

Name a group in the temperance movement

Answer 31

Anti-Saloon League, Women’s Christian Temperance Society

Question 32

How many more votes could politicians gain in rural areas by supporting prohibition?

Answer 32

50%

Question 33

How many babies were allegedly smothered by drunken parents each year?

Answer 33

3000

Question 34

How many arrests did Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith make?

Answer 34

4932

Question 35

By what percentage did alcohol consumption decline in the 1920s?

Answer 35

30%-50%

Question 36

How long did it take Izzy Einstein to find alcohol in New Orleans?

Answer 36

35 seconds

Question 37

Name three gangsters during the prohibition era

Answer 37

O’Banion, Bugs Moran, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Johnny Torio, the Guizenbergs, George Remus

Question 38

How many unsolved murders were there in Chicago by 1929?

Answer 38

300

Question 39

How much did Capone make from speakeasies per year?

Answer 39

$60 million

Question 40

When was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and how many died?

Answer 40

14th February 1929 and 7

Question 41

Who was the FBI boss of New York who sacked corrupt agents?

Answer 41

Don Chaplin

Question 42

What did George Remus give out to guests at his parties?

Answer 42

$25,000 diamond cufflinks

Question 43

What fraction of prohibition agents were corrupt?

Answer 43

1/12

Question 44

How many saloons and breweries were shut down during the prohibition era?

Answer 44

180,000 and 1800

Question 45

What was the name of the law which introduced prohibition?

Answer 45

Volstead Act

Question 46

How much was made by gangsters in total during prohibition?

Answer 46

$2 billion

Question 47

What name was given to illegal bars?

Answer 47

Speakeasies

Question 48

How much money did Capone give to soup kitchens during the Great Depression?

Answer 48

$300,000

Question 49

In which year did prohibition end?

Answer 49

1933

Question 50

What was the main reason Roosevelt ended prohibition?

Answer 50

Taxes to pay for New Deal