The 1920-1960

Question 1

What is laissez faire?

Answer 1

Leave the economy alone

Question 2

What is the Assembly line ?

Answer 2

When workers do small specific jobs

Question 3

What is mass production

Answer 3

Makes more of that product

Question 4

What is McCarthyism?

Answer 4

The rise of fear of communism in the late 40s and early 50s

Question 5

What does HUAC stand for?

Answer 5

House of Un-American Activities Committee

Question 6

What is HUAC ?

Answer 6

They were responsible for finding a lot of suspect communists

Question 7

What is McCarran Internal Security Act ?

Answer 7

A law that required the registration of Communist group

Question 8

What is The Jim Crow law ?

Answer 8

It legalised segregation in the southern states

Question 9

How many members were in the KKK group

Answer 9

5 million

Question 10

What is Birth of a Nation ?

Answer 10

It was a film shown in the White House in the 1950s

Question 11

What are sharecroppers ?

Answer 11

Tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent

Question 12

Who was the KKK group’s leader ?

Answer 12

The imperial wizard or Grand wizard

Question 13

Who were the two immigrants arrested for murder ?

Answer 13

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 14

What did the rich have to do just because they earned more money

Answer 14

Pay higher taxes

Question 15

What is Housing boom ?

Answer 15

The number of homeowners went from 23 million in in 1950 to 32 million in 1960

Question 16

What is baby boom ?

Answer 16

4 million baby’s born each year in 1964. There we’re almost 77 million “baby boomers”.

Question 17

In 1964 what percentage did the population increase by

Answer 17

30%

Question 18

what did the assembly line and the mass production led to ?

Answer 18

Economic boom

Question 19

what did Henry Ford do ?

Answer 19

he created Model T Ford

Question 20

what is stock market

Answer 20

when you buy and sell shares in a company

Question 21

what is the Economic boom

Answer 21

when a countries economy expands rapidly

Question 22

how much did ford workers get paid

Answer 22

$5 per hour

Question 23

what was the Volstead Act

Answer 23

the production of selling alcohol was illegal in 1920-1933

Question 24

what were the successes of prohibition

Answer 24

the successes of prohibition is that alcoholism fell 80%

Question 25

name a cause of prohibition

Answer 25

violence, waste of money death

Question 26

what was the first talkie called ?

Answer 26

The Jazz singer

Question 27

name a famous sport star

Answer 27

Babe Ruth

Question 28

who is Clara bow

Answer 28

a famous IT girl

Question 29

what is xenophobia

Answer 29

the fear of immigrants

Question 30

when and what was the red scare

Answer 30

the fear of communism in the 1920s

Question 31

what was segregation

Answer 31

the separation of black and white Americans

Question 32

did African Americans have the right to vote

Answer 32

yes but they were restricted

Question 33

when was the first Model T Ford

Answer 33

1908

Question 34

when was the Russian Revolution

Answer 34

1917

Question 35

when was Prohibition

Answer 35

1920

Question 36

when was the Immigration Quota Act

Answer 36

1921

Question 37

when was the National Origins Act

Answer 37

1924

Question 38

when was the KKK March

Answer 38

1925

Question 39

when was the first talkie

Answer 39

1927

Question 40

when was the Wall Street Act

Answer 40

1929

Question 41

when was the St Valentines

Answer 41

1929

Question 42

who set up the New Deal

Answer 42

Roosevelt

Question 43

how many states did Roosevelt win

Answer 43

42 and hoover only won 6 states and that was his hometown