Industrialisation and Urbanisation
What production method did Henry Ford use to increase efficiency?
Assembly Line
What is consumerism?
Buying goods/services in large quantities
What is the KKK?
White supremacist organisation
Name ONE cause of the Great Depression
Overproduction, credit (debt), speculation
What event triggered USA's entry in WW2?
Pearl Harbour attack
Explain one impact of urbanisation on American society.
Growth of cities, overcrowding, ethnic ghettos, cultural change
Name one way advertising influenced Americans.
Created desire, fear, status pressure
What was the purpose of the Emergency Quota Act (1921)?
To limit immigration
Ideology that advocates for no government intervention.
Laissez-faire
How did mobilisation affect US economy?
Jobs, industrial growth, end of Depression
How did industrialisation contribute to economic growth in the 1920s?
Mass Production, Cheaper Goods, Increased Consumption
Explain how credit contributed to consumerism.
Enabled people to buy goods they could not afford outright
What was the film that rekindled the KKK?
Birth of a Nation (1915)
Three main areas of the New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Policy of non-intervention outside of the Americas and to keep European powers away from the Americas
Assess the impact of industrialisation on workers.
Higher wages BUT repetitive labour, loss of skill, poor conditions
How did entertainment (radio/cinema) shape American identity?
Shared culture, national values, celebrity culture
Name of the trial where a teacher was taken to court for teaching evolution
The Scopes Monkey Trial
New Deal act that sep prices in the agricultural sector
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)
Why was the USA slow to mobilise pre-1941?
Isolationism, lack of popular support
What technology allowed for the development of sky-rises?
Steel
What was the Hayes Code
The film moral code implemented in 1930
What act was passed that enacted the 18th amendment?
The Volstead Act
Where is the "Cheese Vault" located
Springfield, Missouri
What legislation aimed to prevent US involvement in wars in the 1930s?
Neutrality Acts