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What changes happened to cars

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-cars were mass produced in Detroit

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What was the first model and colour of cars

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Model T, black because it was the cheapest to produce

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Who did mass producing cars affect?

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Cheaper so poor people could pay for cars

People with families

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What were the changes to entertainment

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New music
New dance styles
Hollywood - Charlie Chaplin Valentino

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What was the new style of music and where did it originate from

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Jazz from slave songs

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Why was jazz music disliked by older generations

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Because of the origins of slave music

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What were the new dance moves

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Charleston

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Who did the changes in entertainment affect

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Main cities where there were cinemas

Mainly the rich could afford it

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What were the changes to construction

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New buildings - skyscrapers 
Roads 
Motels 
Diners 
Factories
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Who did the changes to construction affect

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Gave men new building jobs

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What were the changes to advertising and shopping

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Mail order catelogue

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Who did advertising affect

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Women as they did the majority of shopping

Convenience

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How was Henry Ford able to produce cars rapidly

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-used the assembly line from Chicago used to speed up production
-he standardised ever car (one colour and one engine)
By 1929 Ford was producing six cars per minute

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Why were the positives of the Model T

Negatives

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An affordable car for everyone 
Worked in all weather 
Price never increased 
1909- $1200
1928- $295

Although it was difficult to drive and slow

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Why was the assembly line so important

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Needed fewer skilled workers which cut the price of wages

Faster, meant he could produce six cars a minute

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Why was mass production so good for people and workers

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Workers in the factories were given 3x the average wage

Lots of jobs in the main Detroit factory 81,000 men

Jobs in the oil, rubber and steel industry were created

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How did mass production benefit other business

How much of America’s steel glass rubber and leather was used by the production line

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Car production used 20% of steel, 80% of rubber and 75% of plate glass and 65% of Americans leather

-created more business for the companies

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What were the general positives of of mass production

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  • more transport for average people
  • jobs were created
  • sense of freedom
  • people could buy houses out of town and drive to work
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What were the negatives of mass production

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  • more pollution
  • more accidents
  • more traffic
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Who were the four main groups who didn’t benefit from the Boom

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Farmers
Old Industry
African Americans
Native Americans

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Why didn’t farmers benefit from the Boom

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When war ended Europe began to recover their farms- less demand

Countries began to put taxes on crops

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What was the impact of the Boom on farmers

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Many lives below the poverty line
6 million farmers (42%) lived on less than $1,000 a year

Many starved

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Why didn’t the old industry benefit from the Boom

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Cotton and wool industry has less demand for their product because of new man-made fibres (rayon)

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Why didn’t African Americans benefit from the Boom

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Majority lived in Southern America on farms and labourers. Living conditions were appalling

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Why didn’t native Americans benefit from the Boom

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  • majority of their land had been seized by mining companies
  • forced to move to reservations where the soil was poor and near impossible to grow crops
  • in 1920s most Native Americans lived in extreme poverty
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Why didn’t the poor benefit from the Boom

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-richest 5% had 33% of money
In 1926 207 people were millionaires by 1926 there were 15,000
-60% were below the poverty line

Rich kept getting richer poor kept getting poorer

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What were the positive changes for women in the roaring twenties

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1929- 10.5 million women were working
Women were unchaperoned
More role models Clara Bow

19-20 vote gained 
Divorce rate double 
New technology 
Shorter dresses 
Smoking and drinking
28
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What were the negative changes for women in the roaring twenties

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Women in unskilled jobs
Smoking and drinking
New anti flirt league

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Why the the twenties not roar for all women

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  • rich women were able to be unchaperoned but poor women could not afford to go to parties
  • inequality between gender
  • some people though flappers were disgusting to show skin and endorse male attention
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What were flappers

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Flappers were characteristically fun fashionable party goers

Short dresses
Tanned skin
Aggressive
High heels

31
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What was the traditional women like

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Long tied up hair under hat
Pale skin
Long hemline
Long sleeves to cover arms

32
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When did the prohibition happen

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1920 - 1933

33
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Why did the prohibition happen

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  • saw it as immoral and sinful
  • waste of money - temperance movement
  • anti-saloon league
  • WW1 seen as unpatriotic to drink beer from Germany
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How did the government enforce prohibition

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  • 1500 prohibition agents to enforce the law
  • located places which sold or made alcohol and made arrests and confiscations
  • Attempted to stop alcohol smugglers from crossing the border
  • By 1930 3000 agents had been employed
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How did prohibition affect society

4

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  • more bars than before
  • moonshine alcohol could be so strong it could cause illness
  • alcohol poisoning increased from 98 in 1920 to 800 in 1926
  • people were prepared to break the law to drink
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What did prohibition fail ?

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  • American borders- Bootleggers snuggles it from Canada and Mexico as well as the coast
  • law enforcement- bribes police officers. Corrupt forces

Organised crime- the law was scared of the Mafia. Bribed politicians and police. Al Capone made $10 million a year

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What was Al Capones role in the failure of prohibition

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In Chicago policeman and judges turned a blind eye to Al Capone

He supplied alcohol and made speakeasies

38
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What was life like for African Americans

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Segregated- in the South Jim Crow Laws were used to segregate African Americans

The KKK ruled and the police did not help

39
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Why did the KKK rebirth

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Founded in 1860s the KKK was used to terrorise African Americans
Faded towards 19th Century

In 1915 the Hollywood film ‘the birth of a nation’ sparked audiences

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How many members were in the KKK in 1925

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Over 5 million

41
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What was the appeal of the KKK to American citizens

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  • most members were poor white males
  • lived in small rural towns
  • southern states did not have the prosperity of northern states
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What were the methods of the KKK

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  • dressed in white sheets, white hoods and carried American flags
  • kidnapping,whipping and branding with acid
43
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Why did African Americans leave the South

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2 million African Americans left the south as they had stronger racial discrimination

44
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Why was life still bad for African Americans after moving to Northern states

(3)

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  • last to be given jobs, first to be fired
  • occupied the worst housing
  • race riots
45
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What race riot happened in 1919

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In 1919 African Americans entered a white only beach

46
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What was the Harlem Renaissance

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intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the “New Negro Movement”

47
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What impact did the Harlem Renaissance have on African Americans

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  • African American jazz musicians
  • NAACP was founded
  • some African Americans even joined politics
48
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What were two African American jazz singers

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Ella Fitzegerald

Louise Armstrong

49
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What were the positive changes for African Americans in 1920s

(3)

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  • NAACP was set up
  • more job opportunities
  • less people were racist in the north
50
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What was negative for African Americans in the 1920s

4

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  • some couldn’t afford to move to Northern states
  • KKK
  • Extreme violence
  • African Americans had lower paid jobs
51
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What was the appeal of the US to immigrants

4

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  • America had land rich in natural resources
  • lots of job opportunities
  • earned twice the amount as Europeans
  • idea of the American dream was appealing
52
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What were the problems immigrants faced in integrating into society

(5)

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  • lots of work but faced prejudiced
  • poor living conditions in cities
  • poor work due to lack of educations
  • WW1 creates a suspicion of immigrants (xenophobia)
  • Russian revolution led to a fear of communists (red scare)
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What were the attitudes towards immigration in the 1920s

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  • In 1917 literacy tests banned anyone who couldn’t read a sentence of 40 words from entering
  • in 1921 350,000 people were allowed but in 1924 only 150,000 per year were allowed in
  • 1929 no Asians were permitted to enter
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What was the Red Scare

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Fear of communism

55
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Why didn’t America like communists

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-America saw communism as a disease. Worried workers would stop working

56
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What did anarchists do

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  • 1901 president McKinley was assassinated by anarchists
  • bombed several cities in 1919
  • believe in chaos
57
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Why did anarchists help to cause the Red Scare

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-anarchists believe in chaos

Anarchists were believed to be communists

58
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What happened at the Palmer Raids

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  • 6,000 communists arrested
  • made immigrants scared
  • found only 3 guns +no explosives
  • Mitchell Palmer led the riots
59
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Why did the Palmer raids happen

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The underlying cause of the red scare

People believe communists were conspiring a workers revolution

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