Roaring Twenties
Roaring Twenties
Dirty Thirties
Dirty Thirties
Mixed
100
telephones, radio, cars!
What was becoming popular in the 1920s?!
100
People broke the law by drinking in these places.
What are speakeasies?
100
On October 29th, 1929, the stock market crashed, leaving millions of people unemployed and poor.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
Someone who buys shares in a company, hoping to make a profit.
What is an investor?
100
Baseball, hockey, football
What are sports that became popular during the 1920s?
200
electric refrigerator, washing machine and vacuum!
What were new home appliances in the 1920s?
200
A popular dance in the 1920s?
What is the Charleston?
200
The ability to buy something without paying for it right away.
What is credit/credit cards?
200
He was the Prime Minister during the Great Depression.
Who was Prime Minister Bennett?
200
Women fighting for their rights to vote, hold a position in office and have equal rights to men.
What is the Persons Case?
300
silent movies and Charlie Chaplin
What new form of entertainment (or movie) was becoming popular in the 1920s?
300
A popular form of music.
What is jazz?
300
These are three natural disasters that occurred in the West of Canada during the Great Depression.
What is drought, dust storms, and grasshopper plague?
300
Young men were sent here to build roads and buildings, and to plant trees.
What are relief camps?
300
These are the two movies we used to compare the 1920s to the 1930s.
What are Cinderella Man and The Great Gatsby?
400
Residential Schools
What are boarding schools that the Canadian government sent Native children to?
400
They wanted to create a Canadian style of art.
Who are the Group of Seven?
400
Unit of ownership in a company.
What are shares?
400
This is when people snuck on to trains to try to get to another city for work.
What is "riding the rods"?
400
This is the section of the Charter that dealt with the issue of "persons" in the Persons case. (hint: it's a number)
What is section 24?
500
This is when alcohol became illegal during WWI.
What was the Prohibition?
500
Emily Murphy
Who was the first female judge?
500
When someone owes money.
What is debt?
500
When prices and wages fall, and unemployment rises.
What is economic depression?
500
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) Social Credit Party Union National – Quebec.
What are new political parties that were formed in the 1930s?
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