New stuff of the 1920s
Life during the Roaring 1920s
Grab Bag
Life during the Dirty 1930s
Politics and Causes of the Depression
100
During the 1920s, families across the country would gather to listen to programs such as The Happy Gang or Hockey Night in Canada using THIS new source of information and entertainment.
What is the radio?
100
During Prohibition in the US (1920-1933), Canadians capitalized on legal alcohol production and export in Canada to smuggle alcohol into the US, particularly through routes like the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.
THIS TERM (or bootlegging) was the illegal smuggling of alcoholic beverages, particularly rum, into the United States.
What is rum running?
100
Joseph Shuster was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating this DC Comics character.
Who is Superman?
100
This was a term used in Canada during the Great Depression to describe a car which had its engine, windows and sometimes frame taken out and was pulled by a horse.
What is a Bennett buggy?
100
The Union Nationale was formed by Maurice Duplessis in response to the Depression. Once in power, his main goal was defense of THIS PROVINCE against Federal intrusion into provincial politics.
What is Quebec?
200
THIS THING was invented in 1920. Though electrified, it still required an operator to manually cycle through the signals and monitor the flow of traffic.
What is The Traffic Light
200
The "continuous journey" law, introduced in 1908, aimed to restrict Asian immigration to Canada. Explain the law.
The "continuous journey" law required immigrants to travel directly from their country of origin.
200
This devastating pandemic of 1918-1919, was caused by an H1N1 influenza virus, and it's estimated to have killed between 20 and 50 million people worldwide, disproportionately affecting young adults.
What is Spanish Flu?
200
This boxed macaroni and cheese meal was introduced in 1937, during the Great Depression, as a cost-effective and convenient meal option.
What is Kraft Dinner?
200
Banks were subject to minimal regulation under THIS economic policy, resulting in loose lending and widespread debt.
Hint: Its English translation is "allow to do."
What is laissez-faire economic policy?
300
This small, adhesive bandage used to cover minor cuts and scrapes was invented during the 1920s.
What is a band-aid?
300
Mixing elements of blues, ragtime, marching music and African folk rhythms, THIS new style of music was fresh and exciting, and was central to the burgeoning interwar youth culture – arguably the first recognised youth subculture of the modern era.
What is Jazz?
300
THEY emerged as symbols of the new liberated woman, challenging traditional gender roles and societal norms.
What are flappers?
300
This is a slang term referring to the dangerous and illegal practice of traveling by clinging to the supporting rods under a freight train.
What is Riding the Rods?
300
This was a pivotal event in Canadian history. It erupted on July 1, 1935 in THIS Saskatchewan city, as a result of the "On-to-Ottawa Trek," a protest by unemployed men from federal relief camps seeking work and better conditions.
What is Regina?
400
As with any era, the 1920's had its own slang. Name three slang words from the 1920s and their meanings.
Bee's Knees - An extraordinary person, thing, idea
Berries - is attractive or pleasing; similar to bee's knees, As in "It's the berries."
Big Cheese - The most important or influential person. Same as big shot
Bluenose - An excessively puritanical person, a prude
Bump Off - To murder
Carry a Torch - To have a crush on someone
Cat's Meow - Something splendid or stylish; similar to bee's knees; The best or greatest
Cat's Pajamas - Same as cat's meow
Cheaters - Eyeglasses
Crush - An infatuation
Dogs - feet
Drugstore Cowboy - a guy that hangs around on a street corner trying to pick up girls
Dumb Dora - a stupid female
Fall Guy - victim of a frame
Flat Tire - A dull insipid, disappointing date. Same as pill, pickle, drag, rag, oilcan
Frame - To give false evidence, to set up someone
Gams - A woman's legs
Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol
Gin Mill - An establishment where hard liquor is sold; bar
Hard Boiled - a tough, strong guy
Heebie-Jeebies - The jitters
Hooch - Bootleg liquor
Hoofer - Dancer
Hotsy-Totsy - Pleasing
Jalopy - Old car
Joint - A club, usually selling alcohol
Keen - Attractive or appealing
Kisser - Mouth
400
Five prominent Canadian suffragists – Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby – were instrumental in the "Persons Case" that led to women being legally recognized as "persons" under Canadian law.
The case was finally decided the Privy Council in THIS COUNTRY, which was then the highest court in the land.
What is Britain?
400
The strike in THIS Manitoba city was the largest in Canadian history.
Between 15 May and 25 June 1919, more than 30,000 workers left their jobs. The strike resulted in arrests, injuries and the deaths of two protestors. Some of its participants helped establish what is now the New Democratic Party.
What is Winnipeg?
400
During the Depression, THIS Prime Minister personally answered hundreds of letters from desperate Canadians requesting his help, often giving money from his own pocket to needy people.
Who is R.B. Bennett?
400
Many new political parties emerged during the hard times of the 1930s, including THIS party, which pushed for a pure socialist society based on the ideas of Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx.
What is the Communist Party of Canada?
500
In January 1922, Frederick Banting and Charles Best, from the University of Toronto, injected Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old with diabetes, with THIS hormone produced by the pancreas to regulate and digest sugars in the body.
Once injected, Thompson improved immediately.
What is insulin?
500
This Act was first introduced in 1876 by the Canadian government with the primary purpose of regulating and managing the affairs of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
The Indian Act's goal was to assimilate Indigenous peoples into Canadian society by controlling various aspects of their lives.
Here are some key purposes and objectives behind the Indian Act:
Control and Administration: It provided the government with control over many aspects of Indigenous peoples' lives, including their land, governance, education, and cultural practices. Indigenous peoples were considered wards of the state, and the Act allowed the government to intervene in their affairs.
Land Management: The Indian Act established the legal framework for the creation of Indian reserves, which were areas of land set aside for Indigenous communities. The Act regulated how these lands were managed, often limiting Indigenous peoples’ ability to use or sell their land as they saw fit.
Assimilation: One of the core goals was to assimilate Indigenous peoples into European-Canadian society. This included imposing European-style systems of government, education (like residential schools), and legal frameworks, with the aim of eroding Indigenous cultures and traditions.
Governance Control: The Act gave the government authority to appoint Indian Agents, who would oversee the day-to-day affairs of Indigenous communities. It also limited the ability of Indigenous peoples to govern themselves according to their traditional systems. The government could impose elected band councils, rather than allowing Indigenous peoples to use their own leadership structures.
Cultural Suppression: Over the years, various amendments to the Indian Act included provisions that banned certain cultural practices and ceremonies, such as the Potlatch and the Sun Dance, which were important aspects of some Indigenous cultures. The Act also contributed to the enforcement of the residential school system, which sought to erase Indigenous languages and traditions.
500
During the Depression, this catch-all meal was assembled from whatever anyone could scrounge up. Each person was responsible for gathering an ingredient and adding it to the stew, which was shared amongst those people.
What is Mulligan stew?
500
The Dust Bowl, a severe ecological disaster in the 1930s, was caused by a combination of drought, poor agricultural practices, and wind erosion, which led to massive dust storms and the destruction of crops and farmland. It was exacerbated by plagues of THESE insects.
What are grasshoppers?
500
Despite all efforts, the Depression only truly ended with the drafting of young men into military service, and the creation of millions of jobs in defense and war industries during THIS conflagration.
What is the Second World War?