AQA GCSE History America Key Facts. 114 Questions and Answers

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1. What was the Republican policy to- wards the economy? 2. Who revolutionised the car industry in America? 3. What meant that consumers could pay in instalments for goods? 4. What did workers in c... oal and textile in- dustries suffer from in the 1920s? 5. Name 3 other industries that boomed because of the car industry? 6. What act banned the consumption of Alcohol? 7. What policy did America pursue after WW1? 8. What taxes were placed on imported goods in the 1920s? 9. What was the price of a Ford Model T in 1925? 10. List 3 types of consumer goods avail- able in the 1920s 11. Which building was finished in 1931 which represented the wealth of Ameri- ca? 12. What was the place people could buy and sell shares? 13. What was 'Buying on the Margin'? 14. What natural resources was America abundant in? 15. Who was the IT Girl? 16. When was the first 'talkie' made? 17. What new style of music was popular in the 1920s? 18. Why did older people disapprove of Jazz? 19. What new style of dance was popular in the 1920s? 20. Describe 3 key features of a 'flapper'. 21. What year were women given the vote in America? 22. What was the percentage increase of Women working by 1929? 23. Were 'liberated' women in the majority or minority in the 1920s? 24. Describe 2 problems faced by farmers in the 1920s 25. What was the American Dream? 26. What were WASP's? 27. What year was the Emergency Quota Act? 28. What number did the Emergency Quota Act set as the maximum amount of im- migrants per year? 29. What was the widespread fear of com- munism called? 30. Which criminal case against immi- grants shocked the world in 1927? 31. What year were Sacco & Vanzetti con- victed of being 'those anarchist bas- tards'? 32. Which new consumer good offered Americans freedom? 33. Which groups campaigned to start Pro- hibition? 34. What were the illegal bars called during Prohibition? 35. Which people made a lot of profit from Prohibition? 36. Which event turned public opinion against Prohibition? 37. Why were Prohibition officers ineffec- tive? 38. What was a sharecropper? 39. Which laws 'segregated' Black and White people in America? 40. What number of African Americans de- cided to move north in the 1920s? 41. Which film made the KKK grow in pop- ularity? 42. What was the KKK's membership by 1925? 43. What was a lynching? 44. What was the Red Scare? 45. What date was the Wall Street Crash? 46. What were the effects of the Wall Street Crash? 47. What percentage of Americans were unemployed by 1932? 48. What concept did Hoover believe in? 49. What were soup kitchens? 50. What was the Dust Bowl? 51. What was the name for a Shanty Town for those who had lost their job in the depression? 52. How did Hoover try to fix the depres- sion? 53. Who defeated Hoover in the 1932 elec- tion? 54. What was the name of the War Veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 de- manding their pensions 55. What were the three aims of the New Deal? 56. What was the effect of Roosevelt travel- ling the country in 1932? 57. What did Roosevelt do every Sunday? 58. What was so important about the 100 days? 59. Which Act re-opened trustworthy Banks? 60. How fast was The Emergency Banking Act Passed? 61. What act legalised alcohol? 62. What was the AAA? 63. What was the CCC? 64. What did the TVA do? 65. Why were the rich opposed to the New Deal? 66. Which of the aims was the Second New Deal focused on? 67. Why did Republicans not like the New Deal? 68. Who thought the New Deal didn't go far enough? 69. Why did the Supreme Court oppose the New Deal? 70. Why was Roosevelt 'packing the court' a mistake? 71. List 3 successes of the New Deal 72. List 2 limitations of the New Deal 73. List 3 examples of Popular Culture in the 1930s 74. What was the Cash & Carry Plan? 75. What was the 'Lend Lease' Agreement? 76. When did America enter WW2? 77. What was the unemployment rate by 1944? 78. What fraction of America's workforce in WW2 were women? 79. What jobs did Women do during WW2? 80. What was the WAAC, which 150,000 women joined? 81. How many African Americans served in America's armed forces during WW2? 82. When were the first black pilots trained? 83. What year were the first desegregated units in the Army? 84. What new consumer good appeared in America in the 1950s? 85. Why did America Boom after WW2? 86. What percentage of Americans had a TV by 1958? 87. What was the 'Baby Boom'? 88. What was McCarthyism? 89. What was the HUAC? 90. Why did McCarthyism take hold in 1950s America? 91. What was the way you could prove to McCarthy you weren't Communist? 92. Why did McCarthy fall? 93. What new music became popular in the 1950s? 94. What word described the new group of young people emerging in the 1950s? 95. Which celebrity typified teenage rebel- lion in the 1950s? 96. What was CORE? 97. What year was the Brown vs Topeka case? 98. What happened at Little Rock in 1957? 99. What year was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? 100. Who led the 'Direct Action' movement? 101. Give 3 examples of Direct Action 102. What year was the First Civil Rights Act? 103. What year was the Voting Rights Act? 104. Who led the Black Power movement? 105. Who were the Black Panthers? 106. What did the 1968 Civil Rights Act do? 107. What was the 'New Frontier'? 108. What was the 'Great Society'? 109. List 3 policies of the Great Society 110. Why did the Great Society have little impact? 111. What new development in the 1960s gave women more control over their bodies? 112. What year was the Equal Pay Act passed? 113. What was NOW? 114. What did Roe vs Wade do in 1973? [Show More]

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