IGCSE history USA

How often could Henry ford produce a car by a certain year

10, 1925

By a certain year, hire purchase payments were at a high percentage

1929, 75% of cars, 50% of electrical goods

By a certain year, this much money was spent on advertising with this many people employed

1929, $2 billion, 600,000

By this year there were how many department stores

1929, 1395

Between these two years the amount of fridges sold rised from what to what

1921 - 5000, 1929 - 1 million

By this year, a certain amount of cinema tickets were sold per week

1924, 40 million

How many people watched the baseball World Series

300,000

How much did Jack Dempsey's fight with Gene Turvey make

$2 million

The amount of radios in the us rose from what to what between what years

1920 - 60,000, 1929 - 10 million

The amount of people who owned cars went from what to what between what years

1920 - 8 million, 1929 - 23 million

What year was the agricultural credit acts

1923

How much of an increase in tractors was there between these two years

1915-1920, 10x

What did coal mining go from between these 2 years

1920 - 568 million, 1930 - 518 million

How much did the amount of coal miners reduce by between these years

200,000, 1923 - 1929

What did the average annual salary fall from between these dates

1920 - $1807, 1929 - $1749

What percentage of people were jobless ate some point in the town of Muncie, Indiana

72%

In the 1920s, how many more women workers joined the workforce

2 million

What percentage of the workforce were women in the 1920s

20%

What did the amount of married women rise from and to

1.9 million to 3.1 million

How many women became politicians in state governments

145

How did the divorce rate change in the 20s

10% to 17%

What was the birth rate in the 1920s

21.3 births per 1000 people

What percentage of married women and jobs in the 1920s

12%

How many women were in the house of representatives

2

The emergency quota of what year limited immigration outside the western half of the world to what

1921, 357,000

What did the national origins act lower the quota to

357,000 to 164,000

Each country could send what percentage of the number of people living in the USA in what year according to the Emergency Quota Act

3%, 1920

The national origins act meant that each country could send what percentage of the number of people living in the us in what year

2%, 1890

In what year was the quota reduced again to what number

1929, 150,000

How many strikes were there across the US causing red terror

3600

How many mail bombs were addressed to politicians

40

How many cities suffered bomb attacks

8

How many radicals were deported

600

How much were Sacco and Vanzetti accused of stealing

$15,776.51

How many black people migrated to northern cities

1.5 million

What did the black population of Harlem change from and to between these two years

1919 - 50,000, 1930 - 165,000

How much did the number of deaths from liver disease change between these two years

1911 - 29.5 per 100,000, 1929 - 10.7 per 100,000

What percentage of the population were in favour of enforcing the prohibition law?

40%

How much tax revenue did the government lose from prohibition

$11 billion

How much did Al Capone earn a year at his peak?

$105 million

How old was Al Capone when he became gang leader?

25

By what date had there been how many gang related murders in Chicago

November 1924, 200

In what year was Bill Thompson re elected as Chicago's mayor due to support from gangsters

1927

Share values continued to drop until when due to the Wall Street cash and by how much

November 1929, $26 billion

How did the earnings of farmers change between these two years due to the Great Depression

1929 - $6 billion, 1932 - $2 billion

How much did the physical amount exported change between these two years

1929-1932, 32%

How many bonus marchers were there

20,000

How much money was given to the bonus marchers

$100,000

How many bonus marchers stayed

5000

How much did businesses raise to help failing banks under Hoover

$500 million

How many businesses made promises at the national business survey conference

400

How much had Americans deposited by the end of march thanks to FDR's reassurance

$1 million

FDR passed a law to insure bank deposits up to what

$2500

The Farm Credit Administration helped to improve mortgage arrangements for what percentage of farms

20%

How much did the FERA provide states with?

$500 million

Work relief projects like the CCC and PWA received how much

$4 billion

The social Security Act meant employers had to provide unemployment pay for how many weeks?

16

Trade union membership rose to what in what year?

9 million, 1940

How did the amount of lawyers the NLRB had change between these two years

1935 - 14, 1939 - 226

By what year, what percentage of farms had electricity

1941, 35%

How many co-operatives had been helped with loans to lay electrical wires for new customers by what year?

417, 1939

The EFHA had arranged how many contracts for electrical goods by what year

100,000, 1938

What year was Huey long shot dead

1935

What year did Alfred London lose to FDR

1938

What year did the republicans gain some power after elections to congress

1938

How many votes did Father Coughlin's party the national union part get

828,000

Doctor Francis Townsend said that everyone over what age should get how much to spend over how many days

60, $200, 30

Over how many Americans signed Dr Francis Townsend's petition?

20 million

Unemployment fell by how much between these two years due to government spending on defence

1939 - 9.5 million, 1941 - 5.5 million

The overall income on farms rose by around what percentage between what years

50%, 1939 - 1941

How much did US exports grow by in the first three years of the war

70%

The number of people on work relief fell from what to what between these two years

1939 - 3.3 million, 1941 - 2.2 million

Hoover's beliefs

- Volunteerism: government shouldn't force people to do things e.g. encouraging business leaders not to cut jobs

- Self-reliance: Indiviudald should not become dependent on the government or chariy to survivie

Hoover's action

- NCC (National Credit Corporation) helped to raise $500 million by businesses to help failing banks

- FFB (Federal Farm Board) set up to buy up crops from farmers

- National Business Survey Conference involved 400 business executives making promises about production, expansion and wages

- ECE (President's Emergency Committee for Employment) organised and encouraged donations for relief

Roosevelts's First 100 days: Tackling the banking crisis

- Emergency Banking Act closed all bans for 4 days and only "financially sound" banks allowed to reopen

- Asks Americans to deposit their savings and this works with Americans deposit on $1 million by the end of March

- Immediate crisis over, law passed to insure bank deposits of up to $2500

Roosevelt's First 100 days: New laws and Alphabet Agencies

- AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) set up to help farmers

- NRA (National Recovery Administration) wrote rules for industries to follow

- FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) provided relief payments to the unemployed

- The Economy Act reduce government running costs by 25% and lowered federal spending by $450 million

- The Beer and Wine Revenue act began the end of prohibition, making it legal to buy certain alcohol, raising funds through taxes

Roosevelts's First 100 days: Ending over-production

- AAA aimed to raise the price of agricultural goods by offering subsidies to farmers who limited production

- After the first 100 days, the Commodity Credit Corporation was set up which paid farmers to keep extra goods in their warehouse

Roosevelts's First 100 days: Keeping Farms

- FCA (Farm Credit Administration) helped to improve mortgage arrangements for around 20% of the USA's farms, helping farmers to stay on their land

Roosevelts's First 100 days: Helping industry to recover

- NRA created industry-wide codes on how much was produced, prices, wages, working hours etc

- Businesses that followed the code was allowed to display the NRA's symbol, the Blue Eagle providing an incentive

- NIRA gave workers the legal right to join union and faith for better pay etc

Roosevelt's First 100 days: Providing relief to the unemployed

- FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Act) provided $500 million for states to spend on relief

- Home Owner's Refinancing Act extended mortgage payments for around 1 million

- CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) took unemployed young men into the countryside and paid them to do tough outdoor jobs

- PWA (Public Works Administration) was given $3.3 billion to spend on big construction projects to create jobs

- CWA (Civil Works Administration) provided work on short term projects like refurbishing schools and road building

- TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) was a huge federal planning agency that aimed to provide work, extend coverage of electricity, control flooding

The Second New Deal: WPA

- WPA (Works Administration) helped to employ 8 million and spent $11 billion, helping poor men and women from all walks of life

- It provided work such as road and park building, guidebook writing and travelling theatre groups, helping student stay on at college or join training programmes and sewing and teaching programmes

The Second New Deal: Help for the poor

- Work relief projects like the CCC and PWA received $4 billion

- The Resettlement Administration built new suburban towns and the Housing Act set up a new agency to create new homes to replace shanty towns

- NLRA (National Labor Relations Act) helped to improve the working lives of industrial workers and a minimum wage was soon introduced

The Second New Deal: Help for farmers

- The Resettlement Administration helped to resettle a few thousand families from overworked land

- Replaced by the FSA (Farm Security Administration) which helped rural poor buy their own farms and get new equipment

- FSA also helped migrant workers by setting up migrant camps for shelter and paid for dentists and doctors for them

- The second Agricultural Adjustment Act created compulsory measures to limit production using quotas and were enforced through heavy taxes

The Second New Deal: Help for the old and disadvantaged

- Social Security Act created a federal pension system, federal unemployment insurance for up to 16 weeks, financial support for very old people, families with dependent children and disabled groups

The Second New Deal: Help for workers

- The Wagner Act replaced the National Industrial Recovery Act and strengthened trade unions

- It also created the NLRB (National Labour Relations Board) which supervised union negotiations, defended workers who had been fired and helped unions gain recognition from employers

The Second New Deal: Reforming banks

- The Banking Act of 1935 created a Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System chosen by the president

- It also gave various financial powers to the Board, taking them away from the more powerful banks

Rural Electrification

- TVA built dams to generate electricity and lent money to co-operatives to lay power cables

- EFHA (Electric Home and Farm Authority) aimed to help farmers buy electrical appliances by encouraging companies to make cheaper models and providing loans to farmers

- From 1935, the REA (Rural Electrification Administration) took over the electrification programme and also made loans to rural co-operatives across America

- By 1941, 35% of farms had electricity, 417 co-operatives had been helped with loans to lay electrical wires for new customers by 1939 and the EFHA had arranged 100,000 contracts for electrical goods by 1938.