Everyday Life
The banning of producing, consuming, or selling alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
This was the immediate cause of the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash?
These are the years of the Great Depression.
What are 1929 to 1939?
Popular music in the 1920s, originating from New Orleans.
What is Jazz?
Young modern women that wore short skirts, drank and went to dance halls.
What is a flapper?
Right before going into the Depression, which economic stage would a country fall into?
What is a recession?
This leader started the Unemployment Relief Act.
Who is RB Bennett?
This technological invention became widespread in homes during the 1920s, changing how Canadians got their news and entertainment.
What is the radio?
R.B. Bennett stopped the On-To-Ottawa trek in this town.
A nation that relies on only a few major exports to support its economy?
This leader believed in letting the depression “run its course”.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
The group of women who fought for women to be “persons”.
Who is the Famous Five?
An engineless car pulled by oxen or horse.
What is a Bennett Buggy?
This was a treaty between the US and Canada regarding fishing boundaries
What is the Halibut Treaty?
This spending habit caused many Canadians to over extend themselves sending them into debt
This part of Canada was affected the most by the Great Depression.
What is Western Canada/the Praries?
Many Canadians turned to this form of entertainment—like movies, radio shows, and music—as a way to escape the hardships of the Depression.
What is escapism?
All aboard! Men who couldn't find work would do this to help in their search
What is Ride the Rails?
Approximately 50,000 people died from this pandemic just before the 1920s
What is the Spanish Flu?
What is the four stages of the economic cycle?
The government spent money to create jobs, set minimum wage, limited work to 8 hrs/day, and set price controls.
What is the New Deal?
Inventor of the Model T Car
Who is Henry Ford?
During the Depression, unemployed people traveling in search of work were often arrested under this law that criminalized homelessness and joblessness.
What is vagrancy?