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How did the government cause the boom?

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Because republicans didn’t believe in high taxes and had a policy of lassaiz faire

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How did share confidence cause the boom?

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Encouraged many to buy shares in companies helping it gain money to expand and benefit the economy

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How did ford help the boom?

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10,000 model Ts were sold in the first year and one in every 2 cars sold was a model T by 1920 working the economy

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How did mass production help the boom?

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Goods could be made much more cheaply, dropped car price to $300 from $850

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How did hire purchase help the boom?

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People could buy items they couldn’t usually afford by paying bit by bit

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How did advertising help the boom?

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More people wanted products they didn’t always need

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How did radio improve?

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Went from 1 to 508 radio stations

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Give an example showing cinema improved?

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100 million tickets were being sold each week

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What was significant about jazz in the 1920s?

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Everyone would listen to it when traditionally only blacks would and lots heard it though night clubs and in radio performances

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Give some cultural developments of women in the 1920s

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Got the vote in 1919
Drove cars alone
Many were flappers

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How did sport develop in the 1929s?

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It was the first time players were seen as celebs and would get to games in cars or would listen to them on the radio

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What did the prohibition cause?

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  • 1/2 of prohibition agents dismissed for being corrupt

- there were more speakeasies than saloons before the prohibition

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Give some facts about organised crime due to the prohibition

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There were 130 gang led murders in Chicago I’m 1937 and 1938

Organised gangs made $2 billion from illegal alcohol sale

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How were racial tensions increasing during the 1920s?

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The KKK has 6 million members by 1924

The Jim Crow law enforced segregation

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Give examples of political discrimination against communists and immigrants

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Sacco and Vanzetti who got killed via electric chair despite having 107 people confirm they were elsewhere on the night of the robbery
The red scare

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How did immigration reduce in the 1920s?

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  • immigration quota act limited no. of immigrants to 357,000 per year
  • in 1929, immigration was reduced to 150,000 per year and immigration from Asia was blocked completely
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Why did businesses go bankrupt?

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Average share prices dropped by 40 cents leading a total loss of $8000 million to share holders

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What were the stages of the walls street crash?

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1) Banks recalled loans
2) businesses went bankrupt
3) unemployed people spent less
4) bankrupt companies laid off workers
5) production dropped

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How did Roosevelt restore confidence in 100 days?

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Spoke to people through radio so they could get to know him as a person and he introduced the emergency banking act so people could trust banks again closing over 5000 banks

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How did Roosevelt tackle unemployment in 100 days?

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  • PWA gave funds of $3300 million for materials, build school and hospitals to create jobs for the unemployed
  • Economy Act were pay of anyone working in the government, navy or airforce was cut by 15%
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How did Roosevelt help farmers in 100 days?

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FCA leant money to farmers that couldn’t keep up with loan payments

22
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How did WWII Boost American industry?

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Over 1/2 a million businesses grew

CocaCola became world’s most successful soft drink

23
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How did WWII end unemployment?

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14 million were working in factories to produce wartime goods

24
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How did WWII change life for African Americans?

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2 million produced materials in factories and many were officers in the marine or army

25
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How did WWII change women’s lives?

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Equal pay became available in 4 states
6 million had war jobs by 1945
1 in 3 aircraft workers were women

26
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What was HUAC?

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House Un American Activities Committee set up to explore communism in the government and education

27
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How did WWII Increase consumer spending?

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20 million had radios by 1939 and TVs became more prominent

28
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How did televisions change after WWII?

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In 1958, tv ownership increased by 83.2%

29
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How did youth culture change after the war?

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Rock n Roll became associated with young gangs and crime

They drove cars

30
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What was McCarthyism?

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Where Joseph McCarthy made people scared of communism through many lies and half truths

31
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Give entertainments among post war society

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Sport, cinema, tv and radio

32
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How did the NAACP help in 1954?

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Desegregation of schools

33
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In 1955 Rosa Parks…

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Refused to stand up on a bus for a white person triggering peaceful protests fro back rights

34
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How did Martin Luther King continue peaceful protests?

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Set up the bus boycott

35
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What did Greensboro see the start of?

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Desegregation of lunch counters by Ezell Blair and 3 other men

36
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Who were freedom riders?

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Black activists for civil rights who deliberately rode segregated buses in 1961

37
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What happened in August 1963?

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Great March of Washington DC

38
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What were some laws in 1960 that show progress of the civil rights movement?

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Civil rights act

Voting Rights Act

39
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What was a legal challenge of the civil rights campaign?

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White juries were usually always against African Americans

40
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What were some effects of the Bus boycott?

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15000 buses were empty and so black People were getting around in carpools

41
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Give some examples of non violent direct action

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Bus boycott of 1955

Greensboro sit in of 1960

42
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Give some violent tactics from Malcom X and the Black Panthers

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  • black power movement

- burning down houses

43
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Name some civil rights acts

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Voting rights act

Equal pay act

44
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Give some info on Kennedy’s new frontier

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  • Aimed to improve America
  • gave more jobs to African Americans than ever before
  • made $900 million available to businesses
  • increased the minimum hourly wage from $1 to $1.25
45
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Give some info of Johnson’s Great Society

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  • Introduced the voting rights act
  • tightened air and water control
  • made housing act for low income families to afford housing
46
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How did women campaign for equal rights?

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Set up NOW which had 40,000 members after only a few years of establishment
Got equal pay act of 1964

47
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What were some oppositions to equal rights?

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Stop ERA campaign prevented equal rights from being part of the constitution
Southern voters and politicians were still for segregation

History GCSE - USA (12 decks)

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