1920s
The slang name for a fashionable lady in the 1920s
What is A Flapper?
The term for these was created after not being able to afford gasoline for their cars.
What are Bennett Buggies?
These were supposed to be guaranteed by the Canadian Government after signing documents.
What are Treaty Rights?
This is the term for someone who smuggles drugs or alcohol.
What is a Bootlegger?
He was the Prime Minister during the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who is RB Bennett?
The illness that kicked of the 1920s spread after WWI.
What is the Spanish Flu?
Severe drought, reliance on staple crops, high winds and swarms of locust resulted in these 1930s phenomena.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Residential Schools operated in Canada by what groups?
What are Christian Churches, Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican, and others.
This is the term for the banning of substances outright, it was practiced for a short time in the 1920s in Canada.
What is Prohibition?
He was the Prime Minister who served the longest in Canadian History.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
The strike in this City is often seen as the start of the RCMP.
What is Winnipeg?
The practice of moving from town to down by train that was practiced by 'hobos'.
What is riding the rails?
This term means giving up Treaty Rights in order to do things like, leave the reservation, go to college, marry outside your ethnicity, join the military, etc.
What is Enfranchisement?
This is the term for a hidden bar or restaurant during the Prohibition era.
What is a Speakeasy?
They were the group of women who fought in the persons case for the right to vote.
Who are the Famous Five?
This day is seen as the end of the Twenties and the start of the Depression.
What is Black Tuesday October 24, 1929?
These were responsible for higher prices on imported items.
What are Tariffs?
This student ran away from residential school in Kenora, and tried to walk home over 600 km away.
Who is Chanie Wenjack?
This is what it was called when stock buyers would buy stocks based on money that was paid at a later date.
What is Buying on the Margin, or Buying on Credit?
He was a famous Mobster that made his name and fortune off of smuggling alcohol across the Canadian border into Chicago.
Al Capone
In the 1920s these became Mandatory, and ramped up a government policy of Assimilation.
What are Residential Schools?
These were created to house unemployed men looking for work.
What are Relief Camps?
This was the term that means losing one's culture or language in order to fit in to your new surroundings.
What is Assimilation?
This was the name of the government policies in Canada and the USA that were supposed to lift their citizens out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
They were Canadian artists that painted sceneries that made Canada famous for a natural wonderland in the 1920s and 30s.
Who are the Group of Seven?