Intolerance knowledge test Flashcards
when did the USA enter WW1 which helped women gain more jobs?
1917
what year did women gain the vote?
1920
how many workers were there by 1929?
10 million
what had happened to the divorce rate by 1929?
it doubled to 200,000
what colour did the Model T Ford come in to appeal to women?
different colours
name an actress from a 1920’s film
Clara Bow
name a 1920’s film
Up in Mabel’s room
how many immigrants came from Great Britain?
5 million
how many immigrants came from Russia?
2.7 million
how many immigrants came from Italy?
3.2 million
how many workers went on strike in Boston?
400,000
how many towns were there race riots in?
25
on what date was the bomb let off in Milwaukee?
April 1919
how many people did the bomb in Milwaukee kill?
10
whose house was blown up in the red scare?
Mitchell Palmer
what date was Mitchell Palmer’s house blown up?
June 1919
how many bombs were posted to prominent Americans?
36
on what date were bombs posted to prominent Americans?
May 1919
how many files did Hoover build up on immigrants?
60,000
In what year were people told that they were going to be deported from the USA?
1919
how many people were told that they were going to be deported?
10,000
when did Palmer predict there would be a Red Revolution?
May 1920
The Italian American men who were executed after an unfair trial?
Sacco and Vanzetti
what date were the Italian American men who were executed after an unfair trial arrested?
1920
what date were the Italian American men who were executed after an unfair trial executed?
1927
what was the act called which fixed immigration at a quota per year?
the Johnson Reid Act
what was the quota of the act which fixed immigration at a quota per year?
150,000 per year
when were the first black people taken to America as slaves?
17th century
what laws were passed to make blacks “separate but equal”?
Jim Crow laws
what decade was the KKK formed in?
1860s
how many members did the KKK have by 1924?
4.5 million
name one high profile black person that emerged in the 1920s?
Marcus Garvey
where became the centre of black pride and culture?
Harlem
what does the NAACP stand for?
National Association for the advancement of coloured people
how many branches did the NAACP have?
300
How many members did the NAACP have by 1919?
90,000
who founded the UNIA?
Marcus Garvey
how many members did the UNIA have by 1921?
over 1 million
how many black people were lynched per year?
50
what was the life expectancy for black people?
48
what was the name of the first university for black people?
Howard University
when was the Monkey Trial?
1925
in which state was the court case held?
Tennessee
what was the name of the man who led the fundamentalists?
William Jennings Brian
what was the name of the biology teacher who intentionally broke the law and taught evolution?
John Scopes
how many Native Americans served in WW1?
12,000
when was the Indian Citizenship Act?
June 2nd 1924
When was the Meriam Report written?
1928
how many Native Americans were left by 1920?
250,000
