Society and culture in change 1917-80

Question 1

What was one gain for women from WWI?

Answer 1

19th Amendment - gave women the right to vote under the same state rules as men

Question 2

What organisation was set up to encourage women to register to vote in 1920?

Answer 2

League of Women Voters

Question 3

What group of women most benefited from the 19th Amendment post WWI?

Answer 3

Mainly educated white women

Question 4

What was one job that the changing industries of the 1920’s created for women?

Answer 4

Working in a typing pool

Question 5

SKIP

Answer 5

SKIP

Question 6

Where did flappers at times go to without a male?

Answer 6

Jazz clubs and speakesies

Question 7

What did a 1932 Women’s Bureau of Labour report on women in the meatpacking and slaughtering find?

Answer 7

That 97% of women working were either sole-earners or there to boost their husbands wages, not because they wanted to work.

Question 8

Why did some view that the Women’s Buraeu was harming women’s progress during the Great Depression?

Answer 8

They limited women’s working hours to 10 per day and pressed for a minimum wage. This made them uncompetitive

Question 9

What was one example of the CCC providing work for men?

Answer 9

Found work for 17-23 year old men replanting forests and digging resovoirs

Question 10

How many men did the CCC employ?

Answer 10

2.5 million young men

Question 11

What was the female equivalent of CCC work?

Answer 11

Camp Tera - 36 camps taking in 5,000 women a year; the work was unpaid and the training was in budget management

Question 12

For every dollar that a man earned during the Great Depression, how much did white and black women earn?

Answer 12

White woman = 61 cents
Black woman = 23 cents

Question 13

What was the iconic fictional character that urged women to war work?

Answer 13

Rosie the Riveter

Question 14

What was the 1940 act that prepared to draft men into the military and trained women to fill men’s places?

Answer 14

1940 Selective Training and Service Act

Question 15

What were some of the things women trained to work in with the 1940 Selective Training and Service Act?

Answer 15

Shipbuilding and aircraft assembly

Question 16

What was the % of women working in 1940? Why was this?

Answer 16

16% - low due to childcare problems

Question 17

By 1944, how many children were in childcare?

Answer 17

130,000

Question 18

Roughly how many women were working in agriculture by 1943?

Answer 18

3 million

Question 19

What did worker shortages mean for black women during WWII?

Answer 19

They could train for professions they would ave previously not been welcome in e.g nursing

Question 21

What did some white women do in a Detroit rubber plant in response to black female colleagues?

Answer 21

Refused to share the restroom with them

Question 22

What were some of the reasons women stopped work following WWII?

Answer 22

Societal pressures, choice or because federally funded day-care centres closed down in 1946

Question 22

What did the percentage of 45-54 year old women in work increase to between 1940-1950?

Answer 22

10.1% to 22.2%

Question 23

What percentage of men believed women shouldn’t work in 1936? What was this by 1942?

Answer 23

82% in 1936 - 13% by 1942

Question 24

Who was a big housing developer in the 1950’s?

Answer 24

Levitt Homes

Question 25

How many more people lived in suburbs in 1960 compared to 1950?

Answer 25

19 million more

Question 26

What was the first and biggest national women’s rights movement?

Answer 26

National Organisation of Women (NOW)

Question 26

What proportion of the workforce was women in 1963?

Answer 26

1 in 3 workers

Question 27

What book did Betty Friedan publish in 1963?

Answer 27

The Feminine Mystique

Question 28

What was NOW’s aims?

Answer 28

to work within the political system to get equality and better enforcement of the Civil Rights Act

Question 29

The membership of NOW increased from 1,000 in 1967 to what by 1974?

Answer 29

40,000

Question 30

What did the USA not sign up for in 1979?

Answer 30

UN policy of non-discrimination against women in all aspects of life

Question 31

Before WWI, what policy did the US have towards migration?

Answer 31

Open door policy

Question 32

What did the Dillingham Commission of 1911 into immigration find?

Answer 32

Southern and Eastern European immigrants were racially inferior

Question 33

What was the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?

Answer 33

Restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year.

Question 34

Where did most of the workers in Ford’s factory come from?

Answer 34

Eastern Europe

Question 35

What were Italian, German and Japanese Americans classed as when the US joined WWII?

Answer 35

Enemy aliens

Question 36

How many Japanese were shut up in internment camps during WWII?

Answer 36

120,000 (75% of Japanese Americans)

Question 37

After the fall of Saigon in 1975, how many Vietnamese refugees entered the US? By 1985 how many were there?

Answer 37

130,000 - by 1985 over 700,000

Question 38

From what port did the Cuban govt allow migrants to flee from in 1980?

Answer 38

Port of Mariel

Question 38

How long is the border between Mexico and the US?

Answer 38

3,169km - impossible to prevent illegal migration

Question 39

By 1941, there were how many movie theatre seats across the US?

Answer 39

10.5mil

Question 40

Shirley Temple was making 5,000 a week when the annual salary was how much per year in the 1930’s?

Answer 40

2,000

Question 41

What was the voluntary ‘code’ which production companies created?

Answer 41

The Hays Code

Question 42

What did the Hays code state?

Answer 42

Movies produced should improve society by being morally ‘good’

Question 43

What part of the music industry had essentially been killed by the Great Depression

Answer 43

Record industry

Question 44

Who was the priest that condemned the KKK using radio 1920-30?

Answer 44

Father Coughlin