USA 1919-1941 Flashcards
The number of working women increased by
25%
Flappers
Short hair and dresses, sexually liberated and smoked in public.
True or False:
Divorces was easier than before
True
True or False:
There were very little housewives
False
How much did the GNP increase by and when?
25 billion from 1919-1920
How many households has a radio?
20% to 51% from 1920 to 1930
4 causes of the boom
Isolationism
Mass production
Hire purchase
Technology
How many models T’s were produced in 1929
4.8 million
How quickly did model T’ come off the production line in 1929?
Every 10 seconds.
How many people visited the cinema weekly in 1930?
80 million.
What was the first talkie movie?
The Jazz singer. (steamboat willie for cartoons)
Name 3 movie stars of that time.
Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin and Mickey mouse in steam boat willie.
What other industries did the car help?
Steel, rubber and paint.
What problems were there in the 20’s?
Decline in textiles and coal industry because of new machinery and materials like rayon thats factory made. Agriculture because of over production. Racism Red Scare Intolerance
Wealth statistic
5% of the US population owned 1/3 of the countries wealth.
How many people were below the poverty line?
42%.
How much did farm incomes fall by?
22 billion in 1919 to 13 billion in 1928.
How many witnesses claimed to have seen Sacco and Vanzetti at the shoe factory and how many said they didn’t.
61 and 107.
How much was John scopes fined for violating the butler act?
$100.
When was the scopes/monkey trial?
1925.
Who opposed scopes?
Fundamentalists.
How many shares were traded when the stock market crashed?
16 million shares.
When was black tuesday?
19th October 1929
When was the depression the worst?
Winter 1932.
How many people were unemployed?
13 million.
What were the causes of the depression?
Over speculation and buying on the margin. Laissez Faire. Over production. Too many small unstable banks. Wall-street crash.
Percentage drop in industry production.
45% from 1929-1932
Percentage drop in house building.
80% from 1929-1932
Number of banks out of business.
5000 from 1929-1932
Number of failed businesses.
100,000
Hoovers response
Prosperity is just around the corner.
RFC-lent money to banks, industry and agriculture.
Tried to encourage US exports.
Hoover Dam public works project.
What did Hoover strongly believe in?
Rugged individualism.
What amendment to the US constitution is prohibition?
18th.
What act banned alcohol?
Volstead Act.
Reasons for prohibition:
Temperance groups.
Religion.
Boost supplies on important grains like Barley.
Womans suffrage.
Great number of German beer brewers during this time of anti-German sentiment, and so there was a certain patriotism associated with prohibition.
How many speakeasies were there in New York by 1925?
10,000.
How many gangland murders took place and when?
500 from 1927-1930.
When was the St. Valentines day massacre
1929.
Name two main bootleg suppliers
Bugs Moran and Al Capone
How many people listened to the fireside chats?
60 million.
FERA
500 million dollars allocated to help the poor
CCC
6 months of work for 18-25 year old men
How many were part of the CCC and by what year
2 million by 1940
PWA
Paid for public works like schools, roads and hospitals
AAA
Advised farmers on marketing and farming techniques to help solve over production.
NIRA
Set standards on working conditions, had to have a blue eagle symbol .
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
How many jobs did the second new deal provide?
8 million.
Works Progress Act
Extended the kinds of work that was provided e.g. The Federal Theatre project gave work to artists and writers.
Wagner Act
Forced employers to recognise trade unions after the NIRA was made illegal.
Social Security Act
Provided federal aid for the elderly and supported mothers with dependant children. Still less comprehensive than Germanys and Britains.
Who criticised the new deal?
Conservatives said he spent too much money.
Some said FDR betrayed his own class.
Huey Long believed the new deal didn’t go far enough.
Huge cost of welfare programmes.
Francis Townsend said people over 60 should get $200 a month if they gave up their jobs for young people.
How many judges did FDR replace
6 who were in favour of the new deal and were young.
How many judges were there in the supreme court and how old were they?
9 and 6 were over 70
