USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The United States produced how much of the world’s manufactured goods in 1929?
A
10 percent
B
20 percent
C
30 percent
D
40 percent
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -By 1929, the United States produced more than 40 percent of the world’s manufactured goods. In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States. In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Herbert Hoover preferred “associational action” to government intervention in directing regulatory and welfare policies. American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929.

Detailed explanation-3: -By 1920, nearly one million Black Americans left the rural South in a movement called The Great Migration which would transform the economic, social and political landscape of the U.S.

Detailed explanation-4: -“The Hays Code was this self-imposed industry set of guidelines for all the motion pictures that were released between 1934 and 1968, ” says O’Brien. “The code prohibited profanity, suggestive nudity, graphic or realistic violence, sexual persuasions and rape.

Detailed explanation-5: -Which statement best describes the American economy in the late 1920s? High tariffs stimulated international trade.

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