USA1 - Growth of the leisure industry

Question 1

How many cinema tickets were sold a week in 1924?

Answer 1

40 million

Question 2

When were colour films introduced?

Answer 2

1922

Question 3

When was the first film with sound created?

Answer 3

1927

Question 4

What were talkies?

Answer 4

a film with sound

Question 5

When was the first animated film created?

Answer 5

1928

Question 6

Which animated film was the first created?

Answer 6

Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willy

Question 7

Where was jazz developed?

Answer 7

in multi-racial cities such as New Orleans

Question 8

Which film promoted the Charlestone dance in 1928?

Answer 8

Our Dancing Daughter

Question 9

What was marathon dancing?

Answer 9

A new form of dancing competition

Question 10

In 1921, how many people went to the Baseball World Series?

Answer 10

300,000

Question 11

In 1920, how many radios were sold?

Answer 11

60,000

Question 12

In 1929, how many radios had been sold?

Answer 12

10 million

Question 13

In 1920, how many people owned a car?

Answer 13

8 million

Question 14

In 1929, how many people owned a car?

Answer 14

23 million

Question 15

In 1920, could women vote?

Answer 15

no

Question 16

How many women joined the workforce?

Answer 16

2 million (20% of the total workforce)

Question 17

How many married women had jobs by the end of the 1920s?

Answer 17

12%

Question 18

What did women change socially during the 1920s?

Answer 18

• short skirts
• smoked in public
• went out without a chaperone

Question 19

What aspect (at home) of their life did not change for women during the 1920s?

Answer 19

women were still regarded as the homemaker and responsible for bringing up children

Question 20

What is an economic boom?

Answer 20

when output is increasing very quickly, when the Growth Domestic Product is increasing very quickly

Question 21

What is an economic depression?

Answer 21

when output is decreasing very quickly

Question 22

What is an economic recession?

Answer 22

when output is decreasing, but slower than a depression

Question 23

What were the reasons of the economic boom in the 1920s? (effects of WW1)

Answer 23

• european countries bought food + weapons from the USA
• americans loaned money to europeans
• americans took over the customers from the europeans (eg. chemical industry)

Question 24

What were the reasons of the economic boom in the 1920s? (mass production)

Answer 24

• created by Henry Ford
• conveyor belt –> mass production
• 31 october 1925, Model T was produced every 10 seconds
• Model T went from $950 to $290 in 1925

Question 25

What were the reasons of the economic boom in the 1920s? (republican policies)

Answer 25

• taxes were cut
• they encouraged big businesses
• cut the amount of rules businesses had to follow

Question 26

What were the reasons of the economic boom in the 1920s? (advertising + credit)

Answer 26

• 1929, $2 billion a year was spent on advertising

- 600,000 people were employed in the industry

Question 27

What were the reasons of the economic boom in the 1920s? (natural resources)

Answer 27

• americans had to barely import any natural resources, this kept costs low