Usa

Question 1

Race - Fundamentalist - What were attitudes like?

Answer 1

Black Americans suffered due to racism and bigotry, mainly native Americans - due to Jim crow laws. Seen as second class citizens.

Question 2

Race - Monkey Trial - Explain

Answer 2

1924 - Tennessee passed butler act - illegal to teach evolution.

John Scopes taught it in 1925 - fined 100 dollars

Caused disaster for fundamentalist image - debate around science and religion

Question 3

Race - KKK - How many members?

Answer 3

1920 - 100,000 members
1925 - 5 million members

Question 4

Race - KKK - Activities?

Answer 4

Over 430 lynches in 1915-1922

Question 5

Race - Native Americans - How were native American’s treated? Acts?

Answer 5

1890 - NA placed in reservations - gave power to gov

1924 - Native Americans granted US citizenship and were protected by law.

1928 - Meriam Report - evaluated NA boarding schools, reported that NA should be taught in own culture.

Question 6

Race - Jim crow laws - How many Black Americans served?

Answer 6

1896 - Plessy v Ferguson
WW1 - 360,000

Question 7

Race - The great migration - How many race riots?

Answer 7

1919 - 62 deaths overall
32 in Chicago & 537 deaths

Question 8

Race - The great migration - Progress?

Answer 8

50 jobs - 1916
10,000 jobs - 1926

Question 9

Race - UNIA & NAACP - How many members at peak?

Answer 9

NAACP - 1919 - 90,000 members
UNIA - 1920 - 250,000 members

Question 10

Crime - Positives from prohibition

Answer 10

1921 - deaths from alcohol poisoning down from 80%.

Question 11

Crime - Speakeasies

Answer 11

30,000 speakeasies in NY - 1930

Question 12

Crime - Negatives from prohibition

Answer 12

1926 - 50,000 dead from making own alcohol.

Question 13

Crime - Why prohibition ended

Answer 13

IRS - only 25,000 agents - paid off

Question 14

Crime - Al Capone stats

Answer 14

Capone had 200 rivals killed - 1925-29 - no conviction

Question 15

Bust - Falling demand for consumer goods

Answer 15

50% of families earned less than 2000 per year.

Question 16

Bust - land property value

Answer 16

1926 - Florida prices fell.

Question 17

Bust - Over-speculation

Answer 17

1925 - stock market value - $25 billion
1929 - stock market value - $87 billion

1929 - 20 million shareholders

Question 18

Bust - easy credit

Answer 18

75% of shares were borrowed.

Question 19

Bust - panic selling

Answer 19

16.5 million shares traded.

Question 20

Bust - Effects of crash

Answer 20

1929 - 2.5 unemployment

Question 21

Bust - who didn’t prosper

Answer 21

1924 - 600,000 farmers bankrupt
Immigrants - 1929 - 100$ wages.

Question 22

Entertainment - Silent movies

Answer 22

Popularity - 303,000 cinemas by 1930.
Roxy theatre - 6000 people

Cheap - 5 cents

Question 23

Entertainment - Talkies

Answer 23

‘The jazz singer’ - 1922
1930 - 100 million tickets sold per week

Question 24

Entertainment - radio and grammerphone

Answer 24

1930 - 600+ radio stations
1921 - 106million gramophone sales

Question 25

Entertainment - movie stars

Answer 25

Rudolph Valentino - 1mil to funeral
1926 - Greta Garbo - 55,000 a week

Question 26

Women - WW1

Answer 26

90,00 women served
21,000 women served in the army

Question 27

Women - independence

Answer 27

1930 - 2 million women had jobs

1914 = 100,000 divorces
1929 = 200,000 divorces

Question 28

Women - Change in politics

Answer 28

1920 - right to vote
1924 - Nellie Taylor Ross - first women governor