usa boom-crash

Question 1

How many cars were there by 1929?

Answer 1

26 million

Question 2

How many radios by 1929?

Answer 2

10 million

Question 3

What / of cars were bought on credit?

Answer 3

3/5

Question 4

List two industries that prospered during the boom

Answer 4

cars, construction

Question 5

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

Answer 5

The hays code

Question 6

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

Answer 6

1927

Question 7

How many new female workers were there by 1929?

Answer 7

10 mil

Question 8

violent attack of red scare 1

Answer 8

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

Question 9

When were Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and executed?

Answer 9

1920, 27

Question 10

when was st valentines day massacre

Answer 10

14th feb 1929 - 7 rival gang members

Question 11

How much was made by gangsters in total during prohibition?

Answer 11

$2 billion

Question 12

when was red scare 1

Answer 12

1919

Question 13

how many mail bombs

Answer 13

36

Question 14

how many suspected russians imprisoned and deported

Answer 14

556/6000

Question 15

how many gang murders 1927-30

Answer 15

500

Question 16

how many people went to the cinema weekly and when

Answer 16

1919 170 millon went

Question 17

how many people listened to sports

Answer 17

60 million

Question 18

how mnay arrived per day in 1920

Answer 18

5000

Question 19

what did they close the open door to and when

Answer 19

1927 150,000, 2%
national origins act

Question 20

how many people immigrated to usa in 1920

Answer 20

40 million

Question 21

how many members did the kk have in 1925

Answer 21

5 million

Question 22

how many witnesses did sacco and vanzetti have

Answer 22

102

Question 23

which leader lead to the decline of the kk

Answer 23

david stephenson

Question 24

what did the kk say their beliefs were

Answer 24

traditional family christian values

Question 25

how many farmers lost their land in the boom

Answer 25

1/2 = 600,000

Question 26

boom electricity stats

Answer 26

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

Question 27

how much money was spent on highways

Answer 27

1 billion $

Question 28

how many new jobs were created in the boom

Answer 28

500,000

Question 29

how much of america's steel was used in car production

Answer 29

20%

Question 30

who suffered in the boom

Answer 30

farmers, native americans, immigrants

Question 31

why did native americans suffer in the boom

Answer 31

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

Question 32

what was a flapper

Answer 32

A young independent fashionable working woman

Question 33

when did women get to vote

Answer 33

1920

Question 34

when was prohibition

Answer 34

1920-33

Question 35

why prohbition national mood

Answer 35

damamged american society

Question 36

why prohibition practical

Answer 36

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

Question 37

why prhibition relisious

Answer 37

was meant to be forbidden

Question 38

why prohibition moral

Answer 38

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

Question 39

wht are wasps

Answer 39

white anglo saxon protestants

Question 40

when were literacy tests

Answer 40

1917

Question 41

what popularised the kk

Answer 41

the birth of a nation film

Question 42

when was the revolution in russia

Answer 42

1917

Question 43

when were jim crow laws illegal

Answer 43

1964

Question 44

when was the wall st crash

Answer 44

1929

Question 45

why did wall st crash agricutlturw

Answer 45

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

Question 46

why did wall st crash consumer goods

Answer 46

supply was more than demand because everyone had already bought goods

Question 47

why did wall st crash protectionism

Answer 47

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

Question 48

why did wall st crash debt

Answer 48

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

Question 49

why did wall st crash laissez faire

Answer 49

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

Question 50

how many saving accounts were lost in the great depression

Answer 50

9 million

Question 51

what happened to suicude rates in the global depression

Answer 51

doubled

Question 52

what were hoovervilles

Answer 52

slums for the homeless made out of waste materials

Question 53

difference in price of ford in boom

Answer 53

1911 - 800,, 1928 - 295

Question 54

how many ford t models were going out of factory

Answer 54

6 per minute

Question 55

how much was henry ford making per day in 1928

Answer 55

25,000 per day

Question 56

what was protectionism

Answer 56

where the us protected its economy by taxing foreign goods highly

Question 57

example of protectionism

Answer 57

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