ROARING TWENTIES QUESTIONS (Illustrated History of USA pg 93-96 )

1. Why were the USA rich during the Roaring 20s?
2. What were the busiest factories?
3. What other important industries were there at the time?
4. The USA were the 1^st in what?
5. Why were many Americans well-off?
6. Explain ‘Installment Plan’
7. Who became heroes? Give an example
8. What did the Republican Party believe?
9. What did the Government do to help American businessmen?
10. What percentage of Americans were poor?
11. Who worked in the North? And in the South?
12. Who were the sharecroppers?
13. Why did the farmers in the West have problems?
14. Who looked to the future with more optimism?
15. Which president was elected in 1928?
16. What year did the ‘Prohibition’ (Dry Law) start in?
17. What were the ‘Speakeasies’?
18. Whom did the Speakeasies obtain alcohol from?
19. What was the name of the bands formed by the bootleggers?
20. What was Al Capone’s nickname?
21. Why was bootlegging a dangerous business?
22. When did the Prohibition end?
23. Why was the Prohibition harmful for America in the end?