USA Booklet 1: 1920s Boom Flashcards
By what % did average incomes increase in the 1920s?
27%
How many telephones were sold by 1930?
20 million
What % of households had flush lavatories by 1930?
51%
What happened to road length in the 1920s?
Doubled
How many cars were sold in 1919 and 1929?
9 million and 26 million
What buildings were considered symbols of wealth?
Skyscrapers
Name a suburb which grew as a result of the building boom?
Queens / Grosse Point Park
How many civilian flights were there by 1930?
162,000
What was the name of the 1st mass produced car?
Model T Ford
Who was responsible for the industrial efficiency movement?
Frederick Taylor
How much were Ford’s workers paid?
$5 a day
How much did a Model T cost by 1924?
$260
What was the name of Henry Ford’s second plant built in Detroit?
River Rouge
How many people did the River Rouge plant employ?
80,000
What % of the River Rouge’s workers were immigrants?
70%
What European industry did the USA take over during WW1?
Chemical
How much did total industrial production increase in the 1920s?
50%
What % of radios were bought on credit?
80%
What % of cars were bought on credit?
60%
Name the 3 Republican Presidents in the 1920s
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
List the 5 Republican policies of the 1920s
Low taxation, Laizzez-Faire, import tariffs, Trusts, Normalcy
What product type was protected by the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922?
Food
What was the American state of mind during the 1920s?
Spending is good
Who said a “Chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”?
Hoover
Name 4 groups who benefitted from the boom
Factory owners, shareholders, unskilled workers, immigrants, industrialists, the rich and middle class, shop keepers.
What % of farms had electricity in the 1920s?
Less than 10%
How much did the price of a bushel of wheat drop between 1920 and 1931?
$233 - $32 = $201
Competition from which country helped put American farms out of business?
Canada
What % of semi-skilled owned a car?
3%
Which workers went on strike in North Carolina?
Coal and Steel
Why did the United Textile Workers’ Union strike in 1927?
18 cents an hour for long hours
What organisations saw membership fall from 5.1 to 3.6 million in the 1920s?
Trade unions
Name a group who did not like the Roaring 20s
Rural, religious
Name 2 female Hollywood stars
Theda Bara, Clara Bow
Name a controversial Hollywood film of the 1920s
Up in Mabel’s Room, When a Women Sins
What was the Hays Code introduced for?
Censorship
How many radio stations were there by 1922?
508
Name a dance associated with Jazz
Charleston, Black Bottom
Name a Jazz musician of the 1920s
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith
Name a big money baseball team of the 1920s
New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox
Who was world heavy weight champion in the 1920s?
Jack Dempsey
What sport did Bobby Jones play?
Golf
Name a male film star of the 1920s
Charlie Chaplain, Buster Keaton, Rudolph Valentino
What was first made in 1927 in Hollywood?
The first talkie (The Jazz Singer)
What were some urban women in the 1920s known as
Flappers
