USA 1919-41 (Economic Boom and Roaring Twenties)

Question 1

Carnegie was the Captain of what Industry

Accepted Answer

Steel

Question 2

What does the term intolerant mean?

Accepted Answer

unable to accept views/beliefs, that differ from one's own.

Question 3

12 million Americans were black. But how many of them lived in the south?

Accepted Answer

75%

Question 4

What was this group called?

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 5

What is this called?

Accepted Answer

Melting Pot

Question 6

Craze's appeared in 1920's USA. Which of the following were popular crazes?

Accepted Answer

Hanging from skyscrapers, Dancing till you drop, Flagpole sitting

Question 7

A Ford Model T cost $290. On average this was

Accepted Answer

3 months wages

Question 8

These boomed during the 1920s. But what are they?

Accepted Answer

Consumer goods

Question 9

What 2 genres of music benefited most from the boom

Accepted Answer

Blues, Jazz

Question 10

What was the Red Scare?

Accepted Answer

Fear of Communism spreading

Question 11

American tariffs caused Europe to do what

Accepted Answer

Import less foods from America

Question 12

Which 2 of these are causes for the economic boom?

Accepted Answer

Republican policies, Exporting to Europe after WW1

Question 13

Which of the following industries boomed because of the First World War?

Accepted Answer

Foodstuffs, Chemicals Industry, Munitions Industry

Question 14

They were both convicted. But what did the judge describe them as

Accepted Answer

'those anarchist bastards'

Question 15

Below are four causes of the economic boom. What is the top one?

Accepted Answer

New State of Mind

Question 16

Annualsales of radio equipment sky-rocketed from $12.2 million in 1921 to what?

Accepted Answer

$842.5 million

Question 17

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

Accepted Answer

Italian born immigrants wrongly sentenced to death in court

Question 18

One of the following Tariffs made it expensive to import foreign goods. Which one?

Accepted Answer

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

Question 19

What were the 4 Republican Policies?

Accepted Answer

Laissez Faire, High Tariffs, Low Taxation, Trusts

Question 20

KKK members were described as W.A.S.P's - What does this stand for?

Accepted Answer

White Anglo Saxon Protestants

Question 21

Trusts allowed big businesses to dominate industries - what were these called?

Accepted Answer

Captains of Industry

Question 22

Rockefeller was the Captain of what Industry?

Accepted Answer

Oil

Question 23

What was the economic boom?

Accepted Answer

A time of economic prosperity in the USA

Question 24

Laissez Faire literally means what?

Accepted Answer

Leave it alone

Question 25

How did the world react to Sacco and Vanzetti's trial

Accepted Answer

Demonstrations in some cities and Paris embassy was bombed

Question 26

What were the Jim Crow Laws

Accepted Answer

Laws that kept Black people separated from white people

Question 27

American wheat faced competition from

Accepted Answer

Canadian Wheat

Question 28

Henry Ford was a successful businessman because Ford factories used

Accepted Answer

Assembly lines

Question 29

What is the purpose of this cartoon

Accepted Answer

To show how rural farmers are suffering due to industries

Question 30

Women had greater freedoms in their dress sense & sexual morals. What were these women called?

Accepted Answer

Flapper

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