USA Boom, Bust and Recovery 1920-1955

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1. What did the Wickersham Committee do?

  • Sector of the government concerned with stamping down on gangsterism and crime.
  • It was appointed to investigate the effectiveness of prohibition and eventually acknowledge that it wasn't working.
  • It was a group created by the leading gangsters to organise moonshine smuggling and sales.
  • It was set up to regulate the Treasury agents, following allegations of bribery.
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2. Under their Laissez-Faire attitude, what did the Republican Government reduce?

  • It reduced funding to the education sector.
  • It reduced government spending in the health department.
  • It reduced taxes on large scale industries and big corporations.
  • It reduced the power of individual state governments.

3. Who were the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and what did they believe?

  • They were an organisation that offered voluntary help and aid for smuggling immigrant families in the early 1920's.
  • They were a group of women who ran for government in protest of not being given equal rights.
  • They were a predominantly southern organisation that supported prohibition and believed in 'moderation in all things, and abstinence from anything harmful'.
  • They were a women groups that strongly advocated equal rights for women.

4. What factor allowed for more technological advances in the 1920's?

  • More roads/transport
  • Oil is found in Texas
  • Increased immigration allows better trading opportunities with foreign countries
  • Larger amounts consumer credit

5. In what year did the KKK march down Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington?

  • 1926
  • 1925
  • 1924
  • 1922
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