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Flashcards by Niamh Ryle, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What was the rise in real wages for unskilled workers? (Impact of WWI) | 20% |
| How many Americans died in military service? (Impact of WWI) | 112,500 with over 1/2 from diseases like typhus |
| How much did American farmers increase their food exports by? (Impact of WWI) | 300% |
| How many more women were working after the war? (Impact of WWI) | 25% |
| How many were imprisoned under the Sedition Act of 1918? (Impact of WWI) | 1,500 |
| How much were Britain spending per day on US war goods? (Impact of WWI) | $10 million |
| To what size did the army increase? (Impact of WWI) | 120,000 to 3 million men |
| How much money was raised in the five liberty loan campaigns? (Impact of WWI) | Over $21 billion |
| What % of the population did the liberty loan campaigns affect, even after the extended rates? (Impact of WWI) | 5% |
| By what % did industrial production increase between 1916 and 1918? (Impact of WWI) | 39% |
| How much was overseas investment worth? (Impact of WWI) | $10 billion |
| How much did National Debt rise by and to what amount? (Impact of WWI) | 658% to $27 billion |
| What % of the population were living in cities of over half a million? (Years of prosperity) | 15% |
| By 1930, what % of those living in cities had access to electricity? (Years of prosperity) | 85% |
| At what height did the Empire State Building stand? (Years of prosperity) | 382 metres |
| What did the black population of New York rise to between 1910 and 1930? (Years of prosperity) | Under 100,000 in 1910 to over 300,000 in 1930 |
| By what factor did the population of Elmwood Park, Chicago multiply by? (Years of prosperity) | A factor of 7 |
| What did the production time of a Ford Model T fall to? (Years of prosperity) | 14 hours to 1 1/2 hours |
| By 1925, what had the price of a Ford Model T fallen to? (Years of prosperity) | $850 to under $300 |
| By 1921, what % of cars sold in the US was Ford producing? (Years of prosperity) | 60% |
| By 1929, how many cars were registered on the roads of the USA compared to the beginning of the decade? (Years of prosperity) | From 9 million to 27 million |
| What % of steel, plate glass and rubber went into making cars? (Years of prosperity? | 15% of steel, 75% of plate glass and 80% of rubber |
| By 1929, how many people were involved in car manufacture? (Years of prosperity) | 10% |
| How many were involved in the West Virginia railway strike of 1922? (Years of prosperity) | 400,000 |
| What % of families owned vacuum cleaners? (Years of prosperity) | 30% |
| By 1929, how much were companies spending on advertising per year? (Years of prosperity) | An average of $3 billion |
| What % of radios were bought on hire purchase? (Years of prosperity) | 75% |
| By 1930, how often were Americans going to cinema on average? (Years of prosperity) | Once a week |
| In 1929, how many co-operations owned what portion of US industry? (Years of prosperity) | 200 owned over 1/2 |
| By the end of 1922, around how many radio stations were broadcasting to how many radios? (Years of prosperity) | 556 stations to 3 million radios |
| Mellon imposed a policy that, in three cuts, reduced the maximum rate of income tax to what %? (Years of prosperity) | 25% |
| How much did tariffs increase the price of goods by on average? (Years of prosperity) | By 11% to 38% on average |
| How many enforcement agents were enlisted to cover how many miles of coastline and land border? (Social tensions) | 3,000 agents to cover 18,700 miles |
| How many litres of alcohol were destroyed in 1929? (Social tensions) | 50 million litres |
| How many speakeasies were there in New York after Prohibition was implemented? (Social tensions) | 32,000, which was double the amount before |
| What did the cost of a high ball drink rise to? (Social tensions) | 15c to $3 |
| By what % did arrests for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct fall between 1916 and 1922? (Social tensions) | 50% |
| How much was Capone's reported income in 1927? (Social tensions) | $60 million a year |
| How many gangland murders were there in Chicago following Prohibition? (Social tensions) | 227 |
| How many Catholic Italians immigrated between 1880 and 1920? (Social tensions) | 4 million |
| How many arrests were made during the Palmer raids, with how many prosecuted and how many deported? (Social tensions) | 5,000 arrests with 1,000 of these people prosecuted and a further 500 deported |
| To what % of each nationality resident on the 1910 census limit immigration to in the Emergency Quota Act of 1921? (Social tensions) | 3% |
| After changing it to the 1890 census, what % of each nationality resident did the National Origins Act of 1924 limit immigration to? (Social tensions) | 2% |
| By 1925, how many members did the KKK claim to have? (Social tensions) | 5 million |
| What % of the 5 million KKK members in 1925 were from Indiana, Illinois and Ohio and what % were from the old South? (Social tensions) | 40% in those three states and 25% in the South |
| What had KKK membership fallen back to in 1930 after controversy? (Social tensions) | 200,000 |
| How many women were in the workplace by 1930? (Social tensions) | 10 million |
| How many women were elected as state governors following their husbands and how many in the House of Representatives? (Social tensions) | 2 state governors and 2 in the House of Representatives |
| What did the value of the cosmetics industry rise to? (Social tensions) | $17 million to $200 million |
| Between 1929 and 1932, what % of US banks collapsed? (Controversy) | 20% |
| How many weeks after the Crash did it take for the market to halve in value? (Controversy) | 6 weeks |
| What % of Americans actually owned shares? (Controversy) | 2.5% |
| How much was wiped off share value? (Controversy) | $14 billion |
| How much did the six big banks spend in an attempt to improve matters, with how many shares bought in US Steel? (Controversy) | $30 million with 10,000 shares bought |
| How many small to medium sized banks were there in America under how many different regimes? (Controversy) | 25,000 under 50 different regimes |
| How many depositors collapsed with the Bank of the United States in December 1930? (Controversy) | 400,000 |
| Despite government efforts to freeze wages, by what % had US Steel cut wages by 1931? (Controversy) | 10% |
| The US Steel wage cut meant that in ten days how many workers had less money in their pockets? (Controversy) | 1.7 million |
| The value of international trade fell by how much between 1929 and 1932? (Controversy) | From $36 billion to $12 billion |
| What % GNP was Federal expenditure compared to how much by the 1990s? (Controversy) | 3% to 20% |
| How many times bigger was state budget than federal budget? (Controversy) | 5 times bigger |
| How much was allocated in the Agricultural Marketing Act to help farmer owned co-operatives? (Controversy) | $500,000 |
| How much of what budget was actually spent by the National Credit Corporation in 1931? (Controversy) | $10 million of the $500 million budget |
| How much was given to states to finance public works? (Controversy) | $1.5 billion |
| How many families lived under the $2000 breadline? (Controversy) | 60% or 16 million families |
| What % owned over how much of the wealth? (Controversy) | 5% owned over 30% |
| How much did General Electric's income fall by between 1930 and 1932? (Controversy) | 75% |
| How many farm foreclosures were there out of how many farms in Mississippi? (Controversy) | 3,500 foreclosures out of 5,280 farms |
| In 1931, how many man days were lost to strikes? (Controversy) | 2.2 million |
| What did the price of a bushel of wheat fall from between 1919 and 1922? (Controversy) | $2.19 to 90c |
| How much did the RFC make available to rescue banks, trusts, credit unions and other financial institutions? (Controversy) | $2 billion |
| What % of the RFC's budget went to small/medium banks and how much of the first x was given to x institutions? (Controversy) | 90% given to small/medium banks and $41 million of the first $61 million was given to 3 institutions. |
| In 1931, Hoover announced a moratorium and postponed debt collection for how many months? (Controversy) | 18 months |
| The Federal Home Loan of 1932 was intended to save mortgages and make credit easier to get with up to what % assistance? (Controversy) | 50% |
| How much did the Revenue Act of 1932 raise the maximum rate of income by? (Controversy) | From 25% to 63% |
| By 1933, what % of the urban workforce had lost their jobs and how much had their income decreased by? (Controversy) | 25% lost their jobs with a 32% decrease to their income |
| How much did Ford's workforce fall by between 1929 and 1931? (Controversy) | 120,000 to 37,000 |
| How many votes did Sinclair poll? (Opposition to New Deal) | 870,000 |
| How many states had pensions and what did Townsend propose this to be raised to? (Opposition to New Deal) | Only 28 states with the proposal of $200 per month for all over 60s |
| How did Townsend propose to pay for his pension scheme and what % of the National Budget would this have used in reality? (Opposition to New Deal) | A 2% tax which would actually take up 50% of the National Budget |
| What had membership of Townsend clubs risen to by 1935? (Opposition to New Deal) | Half a million |
| How many of all radio listeners tuned in to Father Charles Edward Coughlin's show? (Opposition to New Deal) | 1/3 |
| What had membership of Huey Long's 'Share Our Wealth' clubs risen to in 1935? (Opposition to New Deal) | 8 million |
| What did Huey Long propose be established for all families in America? (Opposition to New Deal) | $5,000 homestead allowance and $2,500 minimum base income |
| Had he stood, what % of the vote was Long predicted in the 1936 election? (Opposition to New Deal) | 12%, enough to swing a Republican victory |
| How much did the 1935 Wealth Tax Act plan to cut back levy on incomes by? (Opposition to New Deal) | 4% and drop inheritance tax altogether |
| How many Republicans to Democrats were there in Congress in 1937? (Opposition to New Deal) | 19 Republicans to 77 Democrats |
| How many Senators were from rural America in Congress? (Opposition to New Deal) | 54 out of 96 |
| How many votes did Roosevelt receive in the 1932 election? (Opposition to New Deal) | 22.8 million votes |
| How many followers did the business community get? (Opposition to New Deal) | Around 125,000 |
| How many judges did Roosevelt propose to allocate for every serving justice over 70? (Opposition to New Deal) | 6 new judges |
| By 1944, how much of the Federal expenditure was spent on the war? (WWII) | $90 billion of $97.2 billion |
| What % of WW2 was paid for by taxation, compared to what % of WW1? (WWII) | 41% compared to 33% |
| How many new rubber plants were constructed? (WWII) | 51 |
| Despite owning only what % of the population did the USA produce over half of manufactured goods? (WWII) | 7% |
| Federal expenditure was what in 1945 compared to how much pre-war? (WWII) | $95 billion compared to under $10 billion |
| Of what size did the USA aim to build an army of? (WWII) | A million men |
| How many more tons of steel a year did the USA produce than Germany, despite only using 1/3 of steel plants? (WWII) | 6 million tons |
| How long did it supposedly take Henry Kaiser to build a Liberty ship? (WWII) | 4 days |
| By 1944, how many of Ford's bombers were being built a day? (WWII) | 10 a day |
| By 1942, the US had produced how many more aircraft than the Axis? (WWII) | 20,000 |
| How many radio transmitters did Russia receive from the US? (WWII) | 35,000 |
| By 1943, what % was the unemployment level? (WWII) | 2% |
| How many jobs were created during the war, leading to a doubling in real wages? (WWII) | 17 million |
| How many more women were in work after the war? (WWII) | 50% |
| What % of the electrical manufacturing industry were female by the end of the war? (WWII) | 50% |
| By what % did earnings in the bottom fifth of society rise by, however what did their share in the National Income rise by? (WWII) | 68% however only by 1% |
| What % of people moved location during the war? (WWII) | 20% |
| What % of working days lost during the war did strikes count for? (WWII) | Under 1% |
| How many African Americans were enabled jobs due to the war? (WWII) | Tens of thousands |
| How many were killed in the riots/street fights in the summer of 1943 in Detroit, and how many of these were black? (WWII) | 29 of 34 killed were black |
| What % of families were under the poverty line with how many going without running water? (WWII) | 20% with 1/3 without running water |
| How many homes in Kentucky had a car by 1950? (WWII) | 2/3 |
| By the end of the 1950s, what % of Americans lived in the suburbs? (WWII) | 30% |
| How many cars were on the road by 1950? (WWII) | 40 million |
| How much was spent on gum in 1952? (WWII) | $255 million |
| What % of the population did the babies born between 1946 and 1964 make up? (WWII) | 40% |
| How many Soviet agents were reporting back to the NKVD in 1941? (WWII) | 221 |
| Between 1947 and 1951, how many government employees were forced to resign and how many states supported this process? (WWII) | 3,000 resignations supported by 39 states |
| How many 'Communists' in the State Department were on McCarthy's list? (WWII) | 205 |
| What was the highest rate of income tax on the very rich? (WWII) | 94% |
| By what % did the number of Americans paying income tax rise by between 1940 to 1945? (WWII) | 4% in 1940 to 40% in 1945 |
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