USA Booklet 1: 1920s Boom

Question 1

By what % did average incomes increase in the 1920s?

Answer 1

27%

Question 2

How many telephones were sold by 1930?

Answer 2

20 million

Question 3

What % of households had flush lavatories by 1930?

Answer 3

51%

Question 4

What happened to road length in the 1920s?

Answer 4

Doubled

Question 5

How many cars were sold in 1919 and 1929?

Answer 5

9 million and 26 million

Question 6

What buildings were considered symbols of wealth?

Answer 6

Skyscrapers

Question 7

Name a suburb which grew as a result of the building boom?

Answer 7

Queens / Grosse Point Park

Question 8

How many civilian flights were there by 1930?

Answer 8

162,000

Question 9

What was the name of the 1st mass produced car?

Answer 9

Model T Ford

Question 10

Who was responsible for the industrial efficiency movement?

Answer 10

Frederick Taylor

Question 11

How much were Ford’s workers paid?

Answer 11

$5 a day

Question 12

How much did a Model T cost by 1924?

Answer 12

$260

Question 13

What was the name of Henry Ford’s second plant built in Detroit?

Answer 13

River Rouge

Question 14

How many people did the River Rouge plant employ?

Answer 14

80,000

Question 15

What % of the River Rouge’s workers were immigrants?

Answer 15

70%

Question 16

What European industry did the USA take over during WW1?

Answer 16

Chemical

Question 17

How much did total industrial production increase in the 1920s?

Answer 17

50%

Question 18

What % of radios were bought on credit?

Answer 18

80%

Question 19

What % of cars were bought on credit?

Answer 19

60%

Question 20

Name the 3 Republican Presidents in the 1920s

Answer 20

Harding, Coolidge, Hoover

Question 21

List the 5 Republican policies of the 1920s

Answer 21

Low taxation, Laizzez-Faire, import tariffs, Trusts, Normalcy

Question 22

What product type was protected by the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922?

Answer 22

Food

Question 23

What was the American state of mind during the 1920s?

Answer 23

Spending is good

Question 24

Who said a “Chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”?

Answer 24

Hoover

Question 25

Name 4 groups who benefitted from the boom

Answer 25

Factory owners, shareholders, unskilled workers, immigrants, industrialists, the rich and middle class, shop keepers.

Question 26

What % of farms had electricity in the 1920s?

Answer 26

Less than 10%

Question 27

How much did the price of a bushel of wheat drop between 1920 and 1931?

Answer 27

$233 - $32 = $201

Question 28

Competition from which country helped put American farms out of business?

Answer 28

Canada

Question 29

What % of semi-skilled owned a car?

Answer 29

3%

Question 30

Which workers went on strike in North Carolina?

Answer 30

Coal and Steel

Question 31

Why did the United Textile Workers’ Union strike in 1927?

Answer 31

18 cents an hour for long hours

Question 32

What organisations saw membership fall from 5.1 to 3.6 million in the 1920s?

Answer 32

Trade unions

Question 33

Name a group who did not like the Roaring 20s

Answer 33

Rural, religious

Question 34

Name 2 female Hollywood stars

Answer 34

Theda Bara, Clara Bow

Question 35

Name a controversial Hollywood film of the 1920s

Answer 35

Up in Mabel’s Room, When a Women Sins

Question 36

What was the Hays Code introduced for?

Answer 36

Censorship

Question 37

How many radio stations were there by 1922?

Answer 37

508

Question 38

Name a dance associated with Jazz

Answer 38

Charleston, Black Bottom

Question 39

Name a Jazz musician of the 1920s

Answer 39

Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith

Question 40

Name a big money baseball team of the 1920s

Answer 40

New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox

Question 41

Who was world heavy weight champion in the 1920s?

Answer 41

Jack Dempsey

Question 42

What sport did Bobby Jones play?

Answer 42

Golf

Question 43

Name a male film star of the 1920s

Answer 43

Charlie Chaplain, Buster Keaton, Rudolph Valentino

Question 44

What was first made in 1927 in Hollywood?

Answer 44

The first talkie (The Jazz Singer)

Question 45

What were some urban women in the 1920s known as

Answer 45

Flappers