history - USA society

• By 1930 how many homes in the USa had a radio set


  40%
• What type of music dominated at this time

  Jazz, Blues or soul
• What was a new type of dance

  Charleston
• How often did young American visit the cinema

  2-3 times a week
• By the end of the 1920s how many million women were employed

  10 million
• Why did employers prefer to hire women over men

  they could pay women less
• Examples of how social restrictions had weakened after the war

  Women smoked. More free time for middle class women. Short hair became a sign of liberation
• What is a flapper


  A name given to a liberated urban women
• What political rights did women gain in the 1920s.

  Right to vote in federal election, the right to run for office. Participation in political organisations
• What does WASP stand for?

  White Anglo Saxon Protestant
• What was the Red Scare

  Fear of immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe who brought communist and anarchist ideas. Fear they would try cause a revolution
• How many strikes were there in 1919

  3600
• Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?


  US Attorney General
• What happened to his home

  Bombed and partially destroyed
• How did palmer respond to this


  Rounded up anyone he believed were communists
• Name of one of the immigration acts

  1921 immigration quote act
• Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

  Italian immigrants who were wrongly arrested, imprisoned and executed in the 1920s
• Why did the KKK have a revival in the 1920s

  Release of the film "The birth of a nation" in 1915

  The red scare
• What were Jim Crow laws?

  Laws passed by various states to segregate African Americans from white Americans
• What was the Great Migration?

  A period between 1910-1920 when thousands of African Americans migrated to the northern states from the southern states
• What was the largest African American district in New York

  Marley
• Famous African American who was part of the Black Renaissance

  Hugh Langston - poet

  Aaron Douglas - artist
• Who was the founder of NAACP

  W.E.B. DuBois
• What does NAACP stand for


  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Who was the leader of the UNIA

  Marcus Garvey
• What does UNIA stand for?

  Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association
• In what way did Native American Indians face persecution and discrimination


  Indian children forced to go to boarding school. Tribes forced to switch to Christianity. Indian traditions banned
• What is the area know as the Bible Belt


  The states of the south and Midwest where church attendance remained high
• Why was Charles Darwin's theory of evolution banned in 6 Bible Belt states

  It contradicted the bible
• Name of the science teacher who tough the theory of evolution and was put on trial

  John Scopes
• Who was Scopes' lawyer?

  Clarence Darrow, America's most famous criminal lawyer.
• Why was the trial significant?

  It made the fundamentalists look ridiculous
• What act introduced prohibition?

  Volstead Act
• Two reasons for why prohibition was introduced

  WW1.

  Growth of the Temperance Movement
• How many prohibition agents were there?

  Between 1500-2300
• In 1920 how many illegal stills were seized

  282,122
• What is a bootlegger?


  people who made and smuggled illegal alcohol.
• How much money were gangsters making a year from the illegal sale of alcohol

  2 billion dollars
• What external event helped end prohibition

  The Great Depression
• Who was Chicagos most notorious gangster

  Al Capone