History

Question 1

Isolationism

Answer 1

Wouldn’t join war due to casualties

Refused to join LoN

Question 2

Republican policies

Answer 2

1922 fordney mccumber tariff

Foreign goods taxed American cheaper

Question 3

Mass production

Answer 3

Faster cheaper 1914

Question 4

Advertising

Answer 4

Billboards, catalogues, radio, newspaper

Question 5

Hire purchase and credit

Answer 5

Easy borrow from banks and pay monthly

Question 6

Stocks and shares

Answer 6

Get rich quick- 300% rise

Question 7

Developments in entertainment industry

Answer 7

Jazz, sport, dancing, cinema (1929)

Question 8

Poor people

Answer 8

71% poverty, farmers overproduction, blacks/immigrants inferior

Question 9

Immigration controls

Answer 9

1917 - literacy test

1921 - EQA 3%

Question 10

KKK

Answer 10

Reformed 1915
5 million 1920
Ended 1925

Question 11

Wall Street Crash

Answer 11

24 Oct 1929 - 14 million shares sold, prices fell

Question 12

Effects of depression

Answer 12

100,000 businesses bankrupt
12 million unemployed by 1932
Farm income fell by 60%
Hoovervilles

Question 13

Hoover and depression

Answer 13

Rugged individualism
$4,000 million for projects

Hawley Smoot Tarriff 1930, 40% goods tax

Emergency relief act 1932, $300m to unemployed

Gave loans of $1,500 million to businesses

Question 14

Election 1932

Answer 14

Hoover lost - Blamed for depression, “In Hoover we trusted now we are busted”, reluctance to rid Prohibition

Roosevelt won - Promised to solve depression, mocked rugged individualism, traveled across country promising hope