The Boom &and bust

Question 1

What was the republican parties policy?

Answer 1

‘Laissez faire’

Question 2

What didn’t republicans not support?

Answer 2

High taxes which pleased many rich and business people

Question 3

Who did the Democratic Party favour?

Answer 3

The most vulnerable and had more support in the poorer southern states

Question 4

What is the bill of rights?

Answer 4

A part of the constitution, it guarantees Americans a series of rights and freedoms

Question 5

Where did white settlers force American Indians to live?

Answer 5

Reservations

Question 6

How many American Indians were there by 1900?

Answer 6

250000, from 5million when Europeans first arrived

Question 7

When did white settlers begin to arrive in America?

Answer 7

1600s

Question 8

When did a new wave of immigrants come to America?

Answer 8

1850 onwards

Question 9

Where were most of these new immigrants from?

Answer 9

Easter and souther Europe, Ireland, China,Japan and South America

Question 10

How did WW1 cause an economic boom?

Answer 10

• American banks lent money to Britain and it allies to buy supplies (mainly from USA) creating jobs
• war disrupted economic growth of other countries, meaning America led stage world in production of medicine, dyes and other materials
• America only major nation without huge wartime debts

Question 11

How did consumer society cause an economic boom?

Answer 11

• number of homes with electricity went up from 15%in 1916 to 70% in 1927
• more people could get electrical products
• which provided jobs in factories

Question 12

How did the republican government help cause an economic boom?

Answer 12

• Fordney-McCumber tariff put high taxes on foreign goods, so Americans bought more American products
• cut taxes paid by rich, this meant more business were started creating more jobs
• taxes were low in general so there was more to spend

Question 13

How did growing industries and mass production help cause an economic boom?

Answer 13

• more jobs created as more cares were made

- mass production meant their goods became cheaper

Question 14

How did new ways to buy and sell help cause an economic boom?

Answer 14

• billboards and magazines urged people to buy stuff
• catalogues made buying easy
• ‘buy now pay later’ (hire purchase) meant products were more affordable

Question 15

How many farmers lost there farms in 1924?

Answer 15

600000

Question 16

Problems in traditional industries?

Answer 16

• coal mines closed , so coal miners lost their jobs

- cotton and wool factory workers suffered because more demand for new man made fibres

Question 17

What did many African Americans work as?

Answer 17

Sharecroppers, who rented small areas of farmland from a landowner

Question 18

What crazes were there during the 1920s?

Answer 18

• Chinese board game call mahjong
• crossword puzzles
• marathon dancing
• pole sitting

Question 19

How much did cinema audiences grow in 1930?

Answer 19

Grew to 100 million from 35 million in 1919

Question 20

How did the lives of some women change?

Answer 20

-more women loved on their own
-some women began to dress and behave differently
-divorce rates doubled in 1920s
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Question 21

What changes did the war bring for women?

Answer 21

• women took over men’s jobs
• got the right to vote in 1920
• by 1929 10.5million women had jobs, 25% more than in 1920

Question 22

What was the prohibition?

Answer 22

The nationwide ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcohol

Question 23

What were the reasons that the prohibition was introduced.

Answer 23

• morality
• religious organisations
• rural America
• patriotism

Question 24

What was the impact of the prohibition on society?

Answer 24

• rise of gangsters
• police corruption
• organised crime

Question 25

What was the association against the prohibition amendment (AAPA)?

Answer 25

Argued the prohibition was a threat to a persons right to drink and that the prohibition was making people lose respect for the law

Question 26

Why did people move to America?

Answer 26

• many European towns and cities were overcrowded
• plenty of jobs in steel, coal ,textile production,and car, electrical and chemical industries
• various groups persecuted in Europe
• standard of living higher in America
• much of Europe still divided by class
• great poverty in Europe
• American land cheap and fertile

Question 27

What was the literacy act?

Answer 27

A 1917 law that banned the entry to any immigrant over the age of 16who could not read a sentence of 40 words

Question 28

What was the 1921 immigration quota law?

Answer 28

Allowed only 350000 immigrants to enter each year

Question 29

What was the 1924 national origins act?

Answer 29

Allowed only 150000 immigrants to enter each year

Question 30

When was slavery abolished?

Answer 30

1865

Question 31

What caused the kkk to become popular again?

Answer 31

The film ‘The Birth of a Nation’

Question 32

Who were the kkk against?

Answer 32

Anyone who wasn’t like them-white and Protestant. They saw themselves as ‘defenders’ of their Protestant religion and what they saw as a decline in moral standards

Question 33

What were the kkks methods?

Answer 33

Whipping, branding with acid,kidnapping, castration and lynching

Question 34

What were Sacco and Vanzetti accused of?

Answer 34

Robbing a shoe factory and murdering 2 staff in April 1920

Question 35

When were Sacco and Vanzetti executed?

Answer 35

Despite years of protests and appeals they were executed by electric chair on 23rd august 1927

Question 36

What was hoovers response to the depression?

Answer 36

• convinced America would recover soon
• ‘rugged individualism’-people can overcome problems with hard work
• huge road and dam building scheme
• made $300 million available so states could help their unemployed-but only $30 million actually accepted

Question 37

What was Herbert Hoovers background?

Answer 37

• orphaned age 8
• made his fortune in the mining industry
• multi-millionaire by the age of 40
• retired from mining to enter politics