Starter quiz
- Write the missing word. Something may be declared ______ if it is not allowed under the laws of a political system.
- 'unconstitutional' ✓
- How many Americans were unemployed by 1933?
- 5 000 000
- 13 000 000 ✓
- 21 000 000
- 29 000 000
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- What type of opponent to the New Deal was Alf Landan?
- business owner
- radical
- Republican ✓
- Supreme Court judge
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- Who proposed the 'Share Our Wealth' plan?
- Alf Landan
- Charkles Coughlin
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Huey Long ✓
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- Write the missing word. In 1937, President Roosevelt introduced an unpopular plan to ______ the Supreme Court but this faced widespread opposition and was abandoned.
- 'pack' ✓
- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events and periods into chronological order.
- 1⇔USA gains independence
- 2⇔World War One
- 3⇔Roaring Twenties
- 4⇔Great Depression
- 5⇔World War Two
Exit quiz
- Write the missing word. ______ refers to types of entertainment or imagination that help you to forget about your work and your problems.
- 'Escapism' ✓
- How did radio ownership in the USA change between 1930 and 1940?
- doubled ✓
- halved
- remained the same
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- What was Duke Ellington famous for?
- Hollywood actor
- jazz musician ✓
- radio host
- soldier
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- How many artists were employed by Federal Project Number One?
- 5000
- 10 000
- 20 000
- 40 000 ✓
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- Which example best demonstrates that Federal Project Number One was able to benefit ordinary Americans well as artists?
- The Works Progress Administration (WPA) hired 3 000 000 workers
- Weekly music classes were provided for 132 000 children and adults ✓
- 40 000 artists were employed to work on the Federal Project Number One
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following stages of film history into chornological order.
- 1⇔most films were silent
- 2⇔cinemas began showing talkies
- 3⇔Great Depression began
- 4⇔cinema attendance fell for a short periodfore recovering
- 5⇔'Wizard of Oz' released in released in colour
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Key learning points
- The New Deal extended specific support to help jobless artists.
- Jazz remained popular although many individual artists suffered.
- Radio ownership doubled in the 1930s.
- A wide range of literature, ranging from novels to comics, flourished.
- Cinemas remained a very popular form of entertainment.
Common misconception
During the Great Depression, Americans had significantly less access to entertainment.
Americans continued to access entertainments on a large scale. Radio ownership doubled, cinema attendance recovered as a form of escapism and new forms of popular literature like comics flourished.
Keywords
Congress - the group of elected politicians responsible for passing laws in the USA are known as Congress
Escapism - escapism refers to types of entertainment or imagination that help you to forget about your work and your problems
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