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1
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How many cars were there by 1929?

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26 million

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How many radios by 1929?

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10 million

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3
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What / of cars were bought on credit?

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3/5

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4
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List two industries that prospered during the boom

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cars, construction

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5
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What was introduced by 36 states to control how relationships were shown in Hollywood films and when was this?

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The hays code

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6
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The first talkie, The Jazz Singer, was released in which year?

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1927

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7
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How many new female workers were there by 1929?

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10 mil

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8
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violent attack of red scare 1

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1919: Attorney General Mitchell Palmer’s house was blown up.

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When were Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and executed?

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1920, 27

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10
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when was st valentines day massacre

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14th feb 1929 - 7 rival gang members

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11
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How much was made by gangsters in total during prohibition?

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$2 billion

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12
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when was red scare 1

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1919

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13
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how many mail bombs

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36

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14
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how many suspected russians imprisoned and deported

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556/6000

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15
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how many gang murders 1927-30

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500

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16
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how many people went to the cinema weekly and when

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1919 170 millon went

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17
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how many people listened to sports

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60 million

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18
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how mnay arrived per day in 1920

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5000

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19
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what did they close the open door to and when

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1927 150,000, 2%
national origins act

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20
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how many people immigrated to usa in 1920

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40 million

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21
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how many members did the kk have in 1925

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5 million

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22
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how many witnesses did sacco and vanzetti have

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102

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23
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which leader lead to the decline of the kk

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david stephenson

24
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what did the kk say their beliefs were

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traditional family christian values

25
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how many farmers lost their land in the boom

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1/2 = 600,000

26
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boom electricity stats

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in 1916- 15% had electricity, in 1927, 70%

27
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how much money was spent on highways

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1 billion $

28
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how many new jobs were created in the boom

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500,000

29
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how much of america’s steel was used in car production

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20%

30
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who suffered in the boom

A

farmers, native americans, immigrants

31
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why did native americans suffer in the boom

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forced to live in reservations by mining companies, where the land was infertile.

32
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what was a flapper

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A young independent fashionable working woman

33
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when did women get to vote

A

1920

34
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when was prohibition

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1920-33

35
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why prohbition national mood

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damamged american society

36
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why prohibition practical

A

wihtout alcohol, supplies of grains such as barley would go up

37
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why prhibition relisious

A

was meant to be forbidden

38
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why prohibition moral

A

people thought it was bad to drink alcohol whilst the men were at warq

39
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wht are wasps

A

white anglo saxon protestants

40
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when were literacy tests

A

1917

41
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what popularised the kk

A

the birth of a nation film

42
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when was the revolution in russia

A

1917

43
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when were jim crow laws illegal

A

1964

44
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when was the wall st crash

A

1929

45
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why did wall st crash agricutlturw

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european farms were slowly recovering, so there was less demand for grains.

46
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why did wall st crash consumer goods

A

supply was more than demand because everyone had already bought goods

47
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why did wall st crash protectionism

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america couldnt sell surplus goods to europe because euope countered their previous tariffs by making some of their own

48
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why did wall st crash debt

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people had been buying stocks on the margin and had been buying through hire purchase

49
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why did wall st crash laissez faire

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the governemnt didnt want to step in to create safeguards on the economy. people withdrew all of their money from the bank (bankruns)

50
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how many saving accounts were lost in the great depression

A

9 million

51
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what happened to suicude rates in the global depression

A

doubled

52
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what were hoovervilles

A

slums for the homeless made out of waste materials

53
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difference in price of ford in boom

A

1911 - 800,, 1928 - 295

54
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how many ford t models were going out of factory

A

6 per minute

55
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how much was henry ford making per day in 1928

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25,000 per day

56
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what was protectionism

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where the us protected its economy by taxing foreign goods highly

57
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example of protectionism

A

Fordney-McCumber tariff act of 1913 which increased taxes on foreign goods

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