usa boom-crash Flashcards
How many cars were there by 1929?
26 million
How many radios by 1929?
10 million
What / of cars were bought on credit?
3/5
List two industries that prospered during the boom
cars, construction
What was introduced by 36 states to control how relationships were shown in Hollywood films and when was this?
The hays code
The first talkie, The Jazz Singer, was released in which year?
1927
How many new female workers were there by 1929?
10 mil
violent attack of red scare 1
1919: Attorney General Mitchell Palmer’s house was blown up.
When were Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and executed?
1920, 27
when was st valentines day massacre
14th feb 1929 - 7 rival gang members
How much was made by gangsters in total during prohibition?
$2 billion
when was red scare 1
1919
how many mail bombs
36
how many suspected russians imprisoned and deported
556/6000
how many gang murders 1927-30
500
how many people went to the cinema weekly and when
1919 170 millon went
how many people listened to sports
60 million
how mnay arrived per day in 1920
5000
what did they close the open door to and when
1927 150,000, 2%
national origins act
how many people immigrated to usa in 1920
40 million
how many members did the kk have in 1925
5 million
how many witnesses did sacco and vanzetti have
102
which leader lead to the decline of the kk
david stephenson
what did the kk say their beliefs were
traditional family christian values
how many farmers lost their land in the boom
1/2 = 600,000
boom electricity stats
in 1916- 15% had electricity, in 1927, 70%
how much money was spent on highways
1 billion $
how many new jobs were created in the boom
500,000
how much of america’s steel was used in car production
20%
who suffered in the boom
farmers, native americans, immigrants
why did native americans suffer in the boom
forced to live in reservations by mining companies, where the land was infertile.
what was a flapper
A young independent fashionable working woman
when did women get to vote
1920
when was prohibition
1920-33
why prohbition national mood
damamged american society
why prohibition practical
wihtout alcohol, supplies of grains such as barley would go up
why prhibition relisious
was meant to be forbidden
why prohibition moral
people thought it was bad to drink alcohol whilst the men were at warq
wht are wasps
white anglo saxon protestants
when were literacy tests
1917
what popularised the kk
the birth of a nation film
when was the revolution in russia
1917
when were jim crow laws illegal
1964
when was the wall st crash
1929
why did wall st crash agricutlturw
european farms were slowly recovering, so there was less demand for grains.
why did wall st crash consumer goods
supply was more than demand because everyone had already bought goods
why did wall st crash protectionism
america couldnt sell surplus goods to europe because euope countered their previous tariffs by making some of their own
why did wall st crash debt
people had been buying stocks on the margin and had been buying through hire purchase
why did wall st crash laissez faire
the governemnt didnt want to step in to create safeguards on the economy. people withdrew all of their money from the bank (bankruns)
how many saving accounts were lost in the great depression
9 million
what happened to suicude rates in the global depression
doubled
what were hoovervilles
slums for the homeless made out of waste materials
difference in price of ford in boom
1911 - 800,, 1928 - 295
how many ford t models were going out of factory
6 per minute
how much was henry ford making per day in 1928
25,000 per day
what was protectionism
where the us protected its economy by taxing foreign goods highly
example of protectionism
Fordney-McCumber tariff act of 1913 which increased taxes on foreign goods
