Usa Stats Flashcards
Cars made in 1900
4000
First moving production line
1913
How many cars were produced between 1908-1925
Over 15 million
How many cars were being produced by 1927
1 every 10 seconds
How many were produced in 1929
4.8 million
How much did a car cost in 1925
$290, 3 month wages of a factory worker
1920’s Chicago (2)
3% of semi-skilled workers 29% of middle class workers
What % of Americans bought goods from catalogues in 1928?
33%
How many cars were brought on credit
6/10
How many radios were brought on credit?
8/10
Number radios 1920 vs 1929
1920- 60,000
1929- 10 million
Number of phones 1915 vs 1930
1915- 10 million
1930- 20 million
Number of cars 1919 vs 1929
1919- 9 million
1929- 26 million
By how much did prices fall in 1921
50%
How many more bankruptcies
5x
How many African-Americans were unemployed?
250,000
Farm income drop 1919 vs 1928
1919- $22 billion
1928- $13 billion
How many rural Americans forced out of the land in 1920
6 million
% of Americans living under poverty line
+40%
Unemployment from 1920-1929
Remains at 5%
Coal miners wage in 1928
Men- $18
Women $9
Reduce in working hours
47-44h
Number of radios in 1930
1 for every 2/3 households
Liscensed radio station 1921
1
Liscensed radio stations 1922
508
How much was the nbc making per year in what year
1929- $150 million/ year
Name a boxer
Jack Dempsey
How many people listened to his boxing fight
1.5 million
Name a baseballer
Babe Ruth
Had a life time record of 714 home runs
How much did this baseballer earn per year
180,000
1920 cinema
Multi-billion dollar business
When was the first movie with sound
1927
Cost of cinema
10-20 cents
Tickets sold by end of decade
100 million/ week
Women in employment
1929- 10 million working outside home
24% more than in 1920
Redscare files built
60,000 suspected communists
Immigrants deported as communist
10,000
Kukluxklan formation
1850
Restart kukluxklan
1915
Members kukluxklan
1924- 4.5 million members
African Americans life expectancy
Vs whites
1900-1930 from 45 to 48 years
Whites 11 more
African Americans employment
1930- all shops in South belt of Chicago employed them
Black lawyer
Paul Robeson didn’t find job because he was black
Jazz singers
Joe oliver & luis Armstrong
African Americans poets
Counted Cullen ( wrote about racial prejudice and black poverty) Langston Hughes
NAACP
National association for the advancement of coloured people
Founded by= Webdubois
Unia
Universal negro improvement association
Unia member
1921- 1 million
Shipping line
Set up by Marcus Garvey
Native Americans served in ww1
10,000
Native Americans in number
From 1.5 million to 250,000 in 1920
Native Americans improvement
1924- us citenship can vote
1928- Merriam report (stayed their schools were underfunded, understaffed and run too harshly) (it stated that they should be taught the skills they require for their rural way of living)
1934- new deal
Prohibition
Volstead act,January 1920
Prohibition agents
250,000
NYC speaksies
30,000
Gangster
Alcapone
Wsc new investors that were speculators
600,000
Shares bought on the margin
1929- 20 million had bought them on the margin
Buying on the margin
Payed only 10% of what the share was worth
Wsc money lent by banks for speculation
$9 billion
Gd workers unemployed
1932- Cleveland 50%
Toledo 80%
Ny problems
1931- 238 people in NY hospital suffering from starvation/malnourishment
45% died
New deal how many alphabet agencies
15
New deal banks allowed to reopen
5,000 banks which had solvent
FERA
Federal
Emergency
Relief
Administration
Ccc
Civilian
Conservation
Crops
Ccc number people helped
2.5 million
Ccc- wages
A dollar a month from gov
30 a month
Ccc other
1934-1937 similar program for 8500 women
Aaa
Agricultural
Adjustment
Act
Aaa improvement
farmers were 50% better off by 1936
Pwa
public works administration
Pwa employed
8 million
Pwa built
SAN Francisco golden gate
NRA
national recovery administration
NRA helped
2 million employers joined scheme
Wsc date
Black Tuesday
29/10/1929
Money loss gd
Vanderbilts lost $40 million
Rockefeller lost 80% of his wealth
Banks failure
1929- almost 700 banks fail
1933- +5000 banks out of business
Bank of United States in nyc goes under with 400,000 depositors
Gd us economy
shrank by 50% in the first 5 years
Gd unemployment
- 5 million within a year
(24. 9%) 1933- 15 million unemployed
Employment price
Drop by 60%
Migrant workers
1932- 2 million
Prices drop
Fell 10% per year
Stock market
1929-1932 lost 90% of its value
International trade
collapsed by 60% , -25% in total number of units
1929- $5.3 billion 1933- $1.8 billion
Wagner act
Second new deal
1935
Illegal to sack workers for being in trade unions
Resetlement administration, 1935
Aims to move 500,000 to areas of better land
Works progress administration 1935
Created jobs for people in the countryside
Social security act
1935
Pensions for the old aged unemployed or sick
Indian recognition act
1934
Provided money to help them to buy and improve their land .
Helped them preserve and practice their traditions
Black capitalist movement
Encouraged blacks to start their own business
Anti-evolution league
League opposed modern ideas states such a Indian, Tennessee very religious
Leader of the fundamentalists
William Jennings Bryan
John- scopes
Bio teacher that deliberately broke the law so his case would be taken to trial
Monkey trial
1925
Money gangsters made
About 2 billion
CCC workers
18-25
Would work in the forest
Rcieved fod and accommodation
Purpose of the new deal
Relief- provide jobs for the poor
Recover- the economy
Reform- the banking system
New deal as a success women
Eleanor Roosevelt- important campaigner on social problems
Frances Perkins- secretariat of labour, removed 59 corrupt officials from the labour department
Mary Maleod- African- American headed the national youth administration
Open door policy
Entry in the country was made as essay as possible as the government wanted to populate the continent.
Literacy test
1917
Immigrants had to pass a test to prove they could read and write, this meant many Eastern European’s didn’t pass. There was an immigration fee of $8
Emergency quota act 1921
Limit 357,000 immigrants per year
New immigrants were allowed to pass as a % of the people of that nationality that lived in the US in 1910
For east Europeans it was 3%
National origins act 1924
150,000 migrants per year
Deliberately designed to penalise immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
Only 2% of the population of any foreign group could arrive (based on the population of 1890).
1929 immigration act
Banned Asian immigration
North and western immigrants allocated 85% of the places
By 1930 immigration from China, Japan, and Esstern Europe had finished
Palmer raids and bombing
1918 the home of attorney general Mitchell Palmer was bombed he was the head of the US justice department
Palmer organised a series of raids against left -wing groups in which over 6000 suspects were arrested they were held in prison and were deported.
Russians were sent back in a ship called “the soviet ark”
Sacco and Vanzetti trial
May 1920 case opened
Lasts 45 days
875 jury member used
1927 executed in the electric chair
Aims of the kukluxklan
Discriminate catholics, Jews, communists and Mexicans
Black return to slavery
Only wasps (white Anglo Saxons Protestants) could join
Unia slogan
Black is beautiful
Paul Robeson as an actor
Famous for the musical ‘ showboat’ and acting in ‘othello’ by Shakespeare
He believed the famous had the responsibility to fight for justice and peace
Failure of prohibition health
By 1926 50,000 people had died from poisoned alcohol made at home. This alcohol also lead to paralysis and blindness
Moonshine
St Valentine’s Day massacre
1929
Climax of gangster wars
Bugs Moran killed one of Capone friends and in return seven members of Moran gang were killed by Capones men who were dressed as police
Public turned against prohibition
Fall in alcoholism during prohibition
80%
Alcapone murders
He had 300 his rivals killed
Change in car price
1908- 850
1925= 290
Increase in roads
By 1930 the total length of paved roads had doubled
Wsc first sign
24th of October 1929-
12.8 million shares traded
Movies deelop
1928 oscars introduced
Number of cinemas
1926- 17,000
Divorce rates
Double from 1914-1929
Example of trusts
Carnegie controlled the steel industry
Roosevelt speeches
16 major
60 from the back of his train
Example of trusts
Carnegie controlled the steel industry
Radical opposition to the New deal
Father Coughlin became disillusioned because he felt that Roosevelt was failing to solve the problems of the poor he broadcasted his ideas every Sunday on the radio
Huey Long- planned a major redistribution of wealth to stimulate the economy
New deal as a success unemployment
Fell by over 30% between 1933-1939
Created millions of jobs
New deal as a success trade unions
Working conditions and pay generally increased
Increased to over 7 million
New deal as a success African-Americans
Around 200,000 gained benefit from the CCC or other new deal agencies
New deal as a failure unemployment
Never dropped below 14%
Only solved when the USA entered WW2
New deal as a failure trade unions
Companies disliked them
In 1937, 10 Chicago steel workers were shot dead by police when taking part in a strike march
New deal as a failure WOMEN
Most programs aimed for manual workers which women weren’t
Local gov tried to avoid paying out social security payments to women by introducing special qualifications and conditions
New deal as a failure African-Americans
Racial segregation in the CCC
Mortgages where not given to black families in white neighbourhoods
No laws against lunching
Domestic workers not included in social security act and many of them worked in that
