america

• What was the Republican policy towards the economy?

  Laissez-Faire
• Who revolutionised the car industry in America?

  Henry Ford
• What meant that consumers could pay in instalments for goods?

  Credit/Hire Purchase
• What did workers in coal and textile industries suffer from in the 1920s?

  Overproduction
• Name 3 other industries that boomed because of the car industry?

  Glass/Rubber/Petrol/Roads
• What act banned the consumption of Alcohol?

  Volstead Act, 1920
• What policy did America pursue after WW1?

  Isolationism
• What taxes were placed on imported goods in the 1920s?

  Tariffs
• What was the price of a Ford Model T in 1925?

  $295
• List 3 types of consumer goods available in the 1920s

  Cars, Radios, Fridges, Telephones...
• Which building was finished in 1931 which represented the wealth of America?

  The Empire State Building
• What was the place people could buy and sell shares?

  The Stock Market
• What was 'Buying on the Margin'?


  People borrowing money to buy stocks
• What natural resources was America abundant in?

  Oil, Coal, Iron, Land
• Who was the IT Girl?

  Clara Bow
• When was the first 'talkie' made?

  1928
• What new style of music was popular in the 1920s?

  Jazz
• Why did older people disapprove of Jazz?

  Saw it as the Devil's music
• What new style of dance was popular in the 1920s?

  Charleston
• Describe 3 key features of a 'flapper'.

  Short hair/shirt/smoked/make up/unchaperoned
• What year were women given the vote in America?

  1920
• What was the percentage increase of Women working by 1929?

  25%
• Were 'liberated' women in the majority or minority in the 1920s?

  Minority, many were still housewives or worked for family businesses
• Describe 2 problems faced by farmers in the 1920s

  Overproduction, competition, selling farms
• What was the American Dream?

  The hope that if a person worked enough, then the poorest could become richer
• What were WASP's?


  White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
• What year was the Emergency Quota Act?


  1921
• What number did the Emergency Quota Act set as the maximum amount of immigrants per year?

  357,000
• What was the widespread fear of communism called?

  The Red Scare
• Which criminal case against immigrants shocked the world in 1927?

  Sacco & Vanzetti
• What year were Sacco & Vanzetti convicted of being 'those anarchist bastards'?

  1927
• Which new consumer good offered Americans freedom?

  The Car
• Which groups campaigned to start Prohibition?

  Anti-Saloon League/Women's Christian Temperance Union
• What were the illegal bars called during Prohibition?

  Speakeasies
• Which people made a lot of profit from Prohibition?

  Gangsters
• Which event turned public opinion against Prohibition?

  St Valentines Day Massacre
• Why were Prohibition officers ineffective?

  Bribery/Too much land to cover
• What was a sharecropper?

  A black farmer, who paid rent in crops
• Which laws 'segregated' Black and White people in America?

  Jim Crow Laws
• What number of African Americans decided to move north in the 1920s?

  2 million