The Boom In 1920's America Flashcards
Name a tariff that was introduced in 1922
The Fordney McCumber Tariff
What plastic did the USA become world leading manufacturers in?
Bakelite
What was the governments ‘do nothing’ attitude called?
Laissez-Faire
How many cars were produced in 1929?
5 million
1 car was produced in how many seconds by 1927?
1 every 10 seconds
What was the change in the number of farmers between 1920 and 1929?
1/3 to 1/4 of the population
What % of rural Americans had electricity?
10%
How many people a week were going to the cinema by 1929?
95 million
What was the first ‘talkie’ called and who starred in it?
‘The Jazz Singer’ starring Al Jolson
Babe Ruth (the famous baseball player) was earning $80,000 by what year?
1930
What was the famous club called in Harlem NY?
‘The Cotton Club’
When did women get the right to vote?
1920
Which 2 prohibition agents made 5,000 arrests in their careers?
Isadore Einstein and Moe Smith
When was the Reeds-Johnson Act introduced to limit the number of immigrants allowed into America from the ‘eastern hemisphere’?
1924
How lynchings were there a year?
50
What does WASP stand for?
White Anglo Saxon Protestants
How many members were in the KKK in their peak year (1925)?
4.5 million members
What were Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for?
Robbing a shoe factory in Massachusetts
When were they convicted and executed?
August 1927
There were 200 gang murders between what years?
1927 and 1931
What fraction of prohibition officers were corrupt?
1/12
How many dollars worth of alcohol did William McCoy smuggle into the USA?
$70 million
How many illegal distilleries were shut down?
280,000
