How Far Did US Society Change in the 1920s? (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE History): Flashcards

The Golden Age of Hollywood is the name given to the 1920s, a decade when cinema flourished before television had been invented.

By 1929, Americans were making 110 million visits to the cinema every week.

WASPs were White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, the powerful White Americans descended from North-Western European immigrants who held positions of power in early 20th-century America.

Between 1850 and 1914, approximately 40 million people emigrated to the United States.

The maximum number of immigrants entering the US each year was reduced to 154,000 by the Reed–Johnson Act of 1924.

The 1921 Emergency Quota Act limited immigration from the eastern hemisphere.

The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) was a racist organisation formed in the Southern US after the Civil War that believed in white supremacy and attacked, tortured and killed Black Americans.

The KKK was revived enormously by the 1915 release of the film The Birth of a Nation.

By 1925, KKK membership had grown to around 5 million people.

The NAACP was founded in 1909.

The NAACP was created to combat racial injustice on a national scale.

Jim Crow Laws were laws passed by White politicians in the Southern states that discriminated against Black Americans, forcing them to use separate facilities and preventing many from voting.

False.

These murders were usually not investigated by the police, and the murderers went unpunished.

In 1919, there were 70 lynchings in the Southern US.

Prohibition was a nationwide ban that made the production, selling and distribution of alcohol illegal across the US.

The sale of alcohol was made illegal by the 18th Amendment.

The Volstead Act classified alcohol as any drink that had contained more than 0.5% alcohol.

Prohibition began in 1920 and lasted until 1933.

The two temperance groups that campaigned for Prohibition were the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

The industrialist who supported Prohibition because he believed alcohol reduced efficiency was Henry Ford.

True.

The Methodists and Baptists did not agree with drinking alcohol and believed that drinking alcohol was a sin.

Bootlegging was the illegal activity of people making and selling alcohol secretly during Prohibition.

The gangster who became a powerful figure by smuggling and distributing alcohol was Al Capone.

Bootleggers paid police officers bribes to ignore their illegal activities.

The 18th Amendment was repealed in 1933 by President Roosevelt.

The Great Depression led to mass unemployment, and legalising alcohol production would create more jobs.

Flappers were young women in 1920s America who rejected traditional expectations by cutting their hair short, wearing short skirts, using bold makeup, smoking and drinking.

When men left to fight from 1917, women took on male-dominated jobs such as working in munition factories and heavy industry.

False.

Most women did not work outside of the household, and those who did had stereotypical jobs such as being a seamstress or a maid.

American women won the right to vote in general elections in 1920.

Women won the right to vote through the passing of the 19th Amendment.

The Maternity and Infancy Protection Act (1921) provided federal and state funds to prevent the deaths of mothers and babies during childbirth.

By 1929, 25% more American women had jobs than in 1920.

During the 1920s, the divorce rate doubled.

In 1929, around 10.9 million women worked in jobs outside of the home.

Flappers were almost all white, wealthy, upper-class women from cities in the northern states.

Most employed women were in low-skilled jobs and were paid less than men for the same work.

Most women continued to have children early and bore nearly all of the burden of childcare, while management positions and politics remained closed to them.