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America's golden age? - 1919 - 1929

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A quiz covering the 'Roaring Twenties,' prohibition, the economic boom, and the Wall Street Crash
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Question 1

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Which presidential candidate in the 1920 election offered a 'return to normalcy'?
Answer
  • Warren Harding
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • William Jennings Bryan

Question 2

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What levels did the Emergency Quote Act of 1921 reduce immigration levels to?
Answer
  • 3% of a country's population in 1910 could immigrate to America
  • 2% of a country's population in 1890 could immigrate to America
  • 5% of a country's population in 1900 could immigrate to America
  • 10% of a country's population in 1850 could immigrate to America

Question 3

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How many (major documented) race riots took place in 1919?
Answer
  • 20
  • 42
  • 16
  • 35

Question 4

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What proportion of Boston's police force went on strike on September 9th 1919?
Answer
  • 75%
  • 50%
  • 100%
  • 25%

Question 5

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Who was Mitchell Palmer?
Answer
  • The leader of a communist group
  • The USA attorney general
  • An immigrant arrested for acts of terrorism
  • The governor of New York

Question 6

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How many people were deported because of the Palmer Raids?
Answer
  • 250
  • 199
  • 356
  • 120

Question 7

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Who were the two Italian immigrants arrested and executed in a famous trial in 1921?
Answer
  • Nicola Sacco
  • Bartolemeo Vanzetti
  • Luigi Galleani
  • Johnny Torrio

Question 8

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What was 'The Birth of a Nation'?
Answer
  • A film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan
  • A book written by Alfred Mahan about how the USA should become interventionist
  • A pamphlet distributed by supporters of the American Federation of Labor
  • A book written about why America should forbid the drinking, buying and selling of alcohol

Question 9

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How many members did the Ku Klux Klan have in 1920?
Answer
  • 4 million
  • 2 million
  • 10 million
  • 8 million

Question 10

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Which of these groups supported prohibition? (Three)
Answer
  • The Anti-Saloon League (ASK)
  • The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
  • The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
  • The American Federation of Labour (AFL)

Question 11

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Who was Wayne Wheeler?
Answer
  • Leader of the Anti-Saloon League
  • Leader of the police force dedicated to hunting down Al Capone
  • A teacher put on trial for teaching evolution in his school
  • The president who came to power in 1923

Question 12

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How much did the prison population increase during the Prohibition period?
Answer
  • 350%
  • 225%
  • 95%
  • 112%

Question 13

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Which of the following were organised criminals in the 1920s who dealt in illegal alcohol? (Three)
Answer
  • Al Capone
  • Johnny Torrio
  • Bugs Moran
  • Eliot Ness
  • John Dillinger
  • Jimmy Walker

Question 14

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What did the Wickersham Commission investigate?
Answer
  • The success of prohibition
  • The causes of organised crime
  • The reasons for the Wall Street Crash
  • Methods to persuade people to enter the stock market

Question 15

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What did Andrew Mellon do that aided the economic boom?
Answer
  • Discovered oil fields in Texas
  • Cut government intervention in industry and lowered taxes
  • Wrote 'The Principles of Scientific Management.'
  • Expanded the electricity industry

Question 16

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How many Model T Fords were produced in the nine years of their peak production?
Answer
  • 15 million
  • 6 million
  • 20 million
  • 9 million

Question 17

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When did the USA give women the right to vote?
Answer
  • 18th August 1920
  • 12th July 1919
  • 31st April 1921
  • 22nd December 1920

Question 18

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In what states were new oilfields discovered in the 1920s? (Three)
Answer
  • Texas
  • Oklahoma
  • Louisiana
  • Alabama
  • New Mexico

Question 19

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How many electricity did Samuel Insull set up by 1929?
Answer
  • 16
  • 6
  • 26
  • 66

Question 20

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What proportion of African Americans were farmers during the 1920s?
Answer
  • 14%
  • 26%
  • 38%
  • 5%

Question 21

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Which of these states were less affected by the economic boom? (Three)
Answer
  • Illinois
  • Pennsylvania
  • Michigan
  • Oklahoma
  • Arkansas

Question 22

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How much did the banks reduce rediscount rates in 1929?
Answer
  • From 4% to 3.5%
  • From 7% to 3%
  • From 2.5% to 1%
  • From 5% to 4.5%

Question 23

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Who was Charles Mitchell?
Answer
  • President of a national city company who encouraged people to invest in the stock market
  • A 'market manipulator' who bought up stocks to encourage other people to buy them
  • An economics expert who warned that a crash was likely to happen
  • An American citizen who became famous for publishing his story about how he lost everything on the stock market

Question 24

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How many dollars (approximately) were lost in the Wall Street Crash?
Answer
  • 30 billion
  • 10 billion
  • 50 billion
  • 60 billion

Question 25

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How did the Hawley-Smoot and Fordney-McCumber tariffs affect the market?
Answer
  • They made tariffs on imported goods so high that the economy was damaged
  • They lowered tariffs so that people traded with Europe too much and damaged American businesses

Question 26

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What did John Maynard Keynes say should be done to protect the economy?
Answer
  • The government should not intervene
  • The government should intervene and inject money into the system
  • Banks should be forbidden to give people loans to 'buy on the margin'
  • Inexperienced people should be forbidden to get involved in the stock market

Question 27

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How did the Agricultural Marketing Act increase the Depression?
Answer
  • It failed to stop overproduction
  • It caused farm workers to be paid too little
  • It encouraged overploughing and helped cause the Dust Bowl
  • It forced people to relocate to more fertile areas which were soon ruined by the Dust Bowl
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