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

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America's golden age? - 1919 - 1929

America's golden age? - 1919 - 1929

Question 1 of 27

1

Which presidential candidate in the 1920 election offered a 'return to normalcy'?

Select one of the following:

  • Warren Harding

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • William Jennings Bryan

Explanation

Question 2 of 27

1

What levels did the Emergency Quote Act of 1921 reduce immigration levels to?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 3 of 27

1

How many (major documented) race riots took place in 1919?

Select one of the following:

  • 20

  • 42

  • 16

  • 35

Explanation

Question 4 of 27

1

What proportion of Boston's police force went on strike on September 9th 1919?

Select one of the following:

  • 75%

  • 50%

  • 100%

  • 25%

Explanation

Question 5 of 27

1

Who was Mitchell Palmer?

Select one of the following:

  • The leader of a communist group

  • The USA attorney general

  • An immigrant arrested for acts of terrorism

  • The governor of New York

Explanation

Question 6 of 27

1

How many people were deported because of the Palmer Raids?

Select one of the following:

  • 250

  • 199

  • 356

  • 120

Explanation

Question 7 of 27

1

Who were the two Italian immigrants arrested and executed in a famous trial in 1921?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Nicola Sacco

  • Bartolemeo Vanzetti

  • Luigi Galleani

  • Johnny Torrio

Explanation

Question 8 of 27

1

What was 'The Birth of a Nation'?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 9 of 27

1

How many members did the Ku Klux Klan have in 1920?

Select one of the following:

  • 4 million

  • 2 million

  • 10 million

  • 8 million

Explanation

Question 10 of 27

1

Which of these groups supported prohibition? (Three)

Select one or more of the following:

  • The Anti-Saloon League (ASK)

  • The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

  • The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

  • The American Federation of Labour (AFL)

Explanation

Question 11 of 27

1

Who was Wayne Wheeler?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 12 of 27

1

How much did the prison population increase during the Prohibition period?

Select one of the following:

  • 350%

  • 225%

  • 95%

  • 112%

Explanation

Question 13 of 27

1

Which of the following were organised criminals in the 1920s who dealt in illegal alcohol? (Three)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Al Capone

  • Johnny Torrio

  • Bugs Moran

  • Eliot Ness

  • John Dillinger

  • Jimmy Walker

Explanation

Question 14 of 27

1

What did the Wickersham Commission investigate?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 15 of 27

1

What did Andrew Mellon do that aided the economic boom?

Select one of the following:

  • Discovered oil fields in Texas

  • Cut government intervention in industry and lowered taxes

  • Wrote 'The Principles of Scientific Management.'

  • Expanded the electricity industry

Explanation

Question 16 of 27

1

How many Model T Fords were produced in the nine years of their peak production?

Select one of the following:

  • 15 million

  • 6 million

  • 20 million

  • 9 million

Explanation

Question 17 of 27

1

When did the USA give women the right to vote?

Select one of the following:

  • 18th August 1920

  • 12th July 1919

  • 31st April 1921

  • 22nd December 1920

Explanation

Question 18 of 27

1

In what states were new oilfields discovered in the 1920s? (Three)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Texas

  • Oklahoma

  • Louisiana

  • Alabama

  • New Mexico

Explanation

Question 19 of 27

1

How many electricity did Samuel Insull set up by 1929?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 16

  • 6

  • 26

  • 66

Explanation

Question 20 of 27

1

What proportion of African Americans were farmers during the 1920s?

Select one of the following:

  • 14%

  • 26%

  • 38%

  • 5%

Explanation

Question 21 of 27

1

Which of these states were less affected by the economic boom? (Three)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Illinois

  • Pennsylvania

  • Michigan

  • Oklahoma

  • Arkansas

Explanation

Question 22 of 27

1

How much did the banks reduce rediscount rates in 1929?

Select one of the following:

  • From 4% to 3.5%

  • From 7% to 3%

  • From 2.5% to 1%

  • From 5% to 4.5%

Explanation

Question 23 of 27

1

Who was Charles Mitchell?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 24 of 27

1

How many dollars (approximately) were lost in the Wall Street Crash?

Select one of the following:

  • 30 billion

  • 10 billion

  • 50 billion

  • 60 billion

Explanation

Question 25 of 27

1

How did the Hawley-Smoot and Fordney-McCumber tariffs affect the market?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 26 of 27

1

What did John Maynard Keynes say should be done to protect the economy?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 27 of 27

1

How did the Agricultural Marketing Act increase the Depression?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

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