Key Events - Meanings/Definitions

Question 1

In 1918, by what % has the number of working women increased by?

Answer 1

25%

Question 2

In 1919, what did the 18th amendment do?

Prohibition

Answer 2

It declared the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.

Question 3

What was the Red Scare?

1920

Answer 3

A term given to the fear of and reaction against communist radicals in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution.

Question 4

What were the Palmer Raids in 1920?

Answer 4

A series of raids conducted by the Department of Justice, it aimed to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists, mostly immigrants thought to be anarchists and communists, then deport them from the country. Overseen by Mitchell Palmer.

Question 5

When and what was the 19th amendment?

Answer 5

1920 - Women were given the right to vote by age (?)

Question 6

What was the average working week in 1920?

Answer 6

47 hours.

Question 7

Real wages increased by what % in 1920?

Answer 7

14%

Question 8

What was the USA’s GNP in 1920?

Answer 8

$73 billion.

Question 9

How many automobiles were on the road in 1920?

Answer 9

7.5 million.

Question 10

The majority of what area of America were without electricity in 1920?

Answer 10

The Rural Parts.

Question 11

What was the rate of foreclosure in 1920?
(When banks would close down farms, throw farmers family out, to gain back some money loaned to the farmers if they could not repay it.)

Answer 11

3.2% in 1000.

Question 12

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti and when were they arrested?

Answer 12

1920 - Two Italian migrant, suspected anarchists, who were controversially convicted of murdering a guard in an armed robbery. They were sentenced to death by the trial judge. 7 years later, they were electrocuted in the electric chair. Anti-Italianism and anti-immigrant bias were suspected as having heavily influenced the verdict.

Question 13

Who was Warren Harding?

Answer 13

A popular republican US president - (1921-1923)

Question 14

Policy of ______ _____ by US government.

Answer 14

Laissez Faire - ‘do nothing attitude’.

Question 15

When and what was the Federal highway Act?

Answer 15

1921 - 10,000 miles of new road built every year.

Question 16

When and what was the Emergency Immigration Law?

Answer 16

1921 - Restricting the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of 20110/11) (?)

Question 17

By 1921, how many members does the KKK have?

Answer 17

100,000

Question 18

Who sets up the American Birth Control League in 1921?

Answer 18

Margaret Sanger.

Question 19

When and what was the Fordney McCumber Act?

Answer 19

1922 - It was a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods to protect factories and farms.

Question 20

In 1922, what % does unemployment never rise above?

-1929

Answer 20

3.7%

Question 21

Who is Charles Ponzi and what did he do?

1922

Answer 21

He became known as a swindler in North America for his money-making scheme. He promised clients a 50% profit within 45 days or 100% profit within 90 days, by buying discounted postal coupons in other countries and redeeming them at face value in the US as a form of arbitrage. In reality, Ponzi was paying earlier investors using the investments of later investors. This was a type of fraudulent investment scheming.

Question 22

How many campsites were built across the US in 1923?

Answer 22

2,000

As family leisure time increased

Question 23

What was the Agricultural Credits Act?

1923

Answer 23

It was a measure that attempted to relieve the stubborn recession in the farm economy of the 1920s. It was part of the effort to develop special mechanisms for providing credit and loans specifically to farmers. However, it did not tackle an important cause of the agricultural crisis – overproduction.

Question 24

What was the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act?

1924

Answer 24

It was an act supplanted earlier acts to effectively ban all immigration from Asia and set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere, an 80% reduction from the pre-World War I average.

Question 25

What profit did ‘Goodyear Tyres’ make in 1924?

Answer 25

$115 million

Question 26

When and what was the Dawes plan?

Answer 26

1924 -