USA in the 1920s

Question 1

What does isolationism mean?

Answer 1

To be a single country by themselves

Question 2

What is the symbol of freedom in New York?

Answer 2

The Statue of Liberty

Question 3

What three dates were the Immigration Quota Acts introduced?

Answer 3

1917, 1921 and 1924

Question 4

What is the name of the Immigration Quota Act passed in 1924?

Answer 4

The National Origins Act

Question 5

Name the 2 Italian immigrants that were put on trial for murder?

Answer 5

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 6

What was the 18th Ammendment?

Answer 6

Prohibition

Question 7

Name 3 causes of the economic boom the USA.

Answer 7

Advertising, mass production and effects of WW1

Question 8

What is the meaning if mass production?

Answer 8

Things being produced on a lager scale to be sold quicker and cheaper

Question 9

Name 3 groups of Americans that did not share the prosperity of the 1920s.

Answer 9

Farmers, blacks and gypsies

Question 10

What was the Red Scare?

Answer 10

The fear of communism taking over the way the live and do things

Question 11

What 2 other group apart from Black Americans did the KKK target?

Answer 11

Jews and gypsies

Question 12

What famous even took place on 14th February 1929?

Answer 12

The St.Valentines Day Massacre

Question 13

What was the name of the illegal drinking clubs?

Answer 13

Speakeasies

Question 14

Give 2 reasons why prohibition failed.

Answer 14

People were still selling or buying alcohol and there were illegal drinking clubs which encouraged alcohol

Question 15

Name 2 temperance groups that wanted to ban alcohol.

Answer 15

Anti-Saloon and Women’s Christian Temperance League

Question 16

Who was public enemy number one?

Answer 16

Al Capone

Question 17

When was the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 17

29th October 1929

Question 18

What written document beginning with ‘C’ governs the USA?

Answer 18

Constitution

Question 19

What is the difference between Federal and State Government?

Answer 19

Federal Law looks after the whole government and State Law looks after State Affairs

Question 20

What was known as the ‘Isle of Tears’?

Answer 20

Ellis Island

Question 21

Who was President of the USA at the time of the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 21

Herbert Hoover

Question 22

What does ‘standardisation’ mean?

Answer 22

Having all of the same parts/things

Question 23

What is ‘HP’ short for?

Answer 23

Higher Purchase

Question 24

What were the two main political parties in the USA during the 1920/1930s?

Answer 24

Republicans and Democrats

Question 25

What does WASP stand for?

Answer 25

White Anglo Saxon Protestant

Question 26

What does Laissez Faire mean?

Answer 26

Not getting the government involved

Question 27

What were 'Palmer raids'?

Answer 27

Arrested 3000 communists for no reason at all

Question 28

Describe the key features of a 'Flapper'.

Answer 28

Shorts clothes, rule-breakers, doing jobs they wouldn't normally do, short hair, usually women.

Question 29

What do the initials KKK stand for?

Answer 29

Ku Klux Klan

Question 30

What is a lynching?

Answer 30

An illegal hanging

Question 31

What does temperance mean?

Answer 31

Not drinking

Question 32

What was a bootlegger?

Answer 32

Somebody who made alcohol illegally

Question 33

What was buying in the margin?

Answer 33

Buying a share without the money so you had to borrow it from the bank

Question 34

What were 3 causes of the Great Depression in the USA in the 1930s?

Answer 34

Loss of money,

Question 35

What are 2 parts of Congress called?

Answer 35

Senate and House of Representatives

Question 36

America was known as what kind of 'pot' because of all its immigrants?

Answer 36

The Melting Pot

Question 37

What is the name of the character that represents America?

Answer 37

Uncle Sam

Question 38

In the early 1900s what was the American Immigration Policy know as?

Answer 38

The Open Door Policy

Question 39

Why did this policy have this name?

Answer 39

America allowed any immigrant into ye country

Question 40

Give 2 reasons why people in America feared immigrants from Eastern Europe.

Answer 40

They were communist and they were thought to threaten the way ye Americans lived

Question 41

Who was the American President in 1922?

Answer 41

Warren Harding

Question 42

What was President Calvin Coolidge's nickname?

Answer 42

Silent Cal

Question 43

Who did Warren Harding give important political jobs to?

Answer 43

His friends

Question 44

What party was President Herbert Hoover a member of?

Answer 44

Republican

Question 45

What is a Hoovervile?

Answer 45

A shanty town

Question 46

What did the US Congress refuse to join that had been set up by President Wilson?

Answer 46

The League of Nations

Question 47

Name 3 new products available to Americans in the 1920s.

Answer 47

Radios, fridges and cars

Question 48

How did advertising help to cause the boom in the 1920s USA?

Answer 48

Showed what people could buy

Question 49

What was the name of the Tariff put on goods into the US?

Answer 49

Fordeny McCumber Tariffs

Question 50

How do credit and confidence link to the boom in 1920s USA?

Answer 50

People with confidence borrowed money know in they could sell it back

Question 51

What colour could you get a Tin Lizzie in?

Answer 51

Black

Question 52

How did Henry Ford make money during WW1?

Answer 52

Weapons manufacturing

Question 53

What were Henry Ford's views on unions and their members?

Answer 53

He Hated them

Question 54

Name the Republican Senator who apposed America joining the League of Nations.

Answer 54

Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 55

How many members of the KKK were there in 1925?

Answer 55

5 million

Question 56

What did the 'Anti-Flirt League' protest against?

Answer 56

Flappers

Question 57

Name a famous jazz musician from 1920s America.

Answer 57

Louis Armstrong

Question 58

Name a famous dance from 1920s America.

Answer 58

The Charleston

Question 59

What fad/craze what Ship Wreck Kelly the champion of?

Answer 59

Longer time to sit on top of a flagpole

Question 60

In which American City is Wall Steet?

Answer 60

New York

Question 61

What was the first Talkie in 1927 called?

Answer 61

The Jazz Singer

Question 62

Give 1 male and 1 female movie star from 1920s America.

Answer 62

Rudolf Valentino and Clara Bow

Question 63

Why is Charles Lingburg famous?

Answer 63

First man to fly solo across the Atlantic

Question 64

Who was the president of the USA at the end of WW1?

Answer 64

Woodrow Wilson