Life in the 1920
What popular music was the craze in 1920s?
What is Jazz
Who were the sleeping car porters?
What is black men working on Canadian Railways
What was the main goal of Prohibition?
What is to ban alcohol
Who were the Famous Five?
What is Canadian women who fought for legal recognition as persons.
Which Canadian PM was blamed for poor response to the Depression?
What is R.B. Bennett
Name one technological innovation that changed life in the 1920s?
What is Radio?
Which event marked Canada's separate signature from Britain in WW1
What is Treaty of Versailles
Which decade did Prohibition occur in Canada?
What is 1920s
Name one leader of the women's Suffrage movement in Canada.
Who is Nellie McClung
What were relief camps?
What is men working in isolated rural areas making 20 cents a day for building roads, cleaning drainage sewage and digging
What term describes the economic boom of the 1920s?
What is The Roaring Twenties
Who was Canada's Prime Minister during the Chanak Crisis?
What is William Lyon Mackenzie King (1922). Britain asked Canada to send troops to support forces in Turkey. Did not follow through.
What term describes illegal bars during Prohibition?
What is Speakeasies
Which group faced head taxes in Canada? Why?
What is Chinese Immigrants
What was the CCF party's main platform?
What is social welfare and public ownership
Which sport became widely popular during the 1920s?
What is Hockey
What was the Halibut Treaty (1923) about?
What is fishing rights between Canada and the U.S.
Which province was the first to end Prohibition?
What is Quebec
Name one challenge immigrants faced in Canada during the 1920s?
What is discrimination
What was the purpose of the Bennett Buggy, and why did it become a symbol of the Great Depression in Canada?
What is... It was a car with the engine removed and pulled by horses because owners couldn’t afford gasoline symbolizing extreme poverty.
What was the nickname for young women who embraced new fashion and attitudes?
What is Flappers
Why did the Balfour Report matter to Canada? (1926)
What is Canada could make its own foreign policy decisions and Britain no longer controlled Canada's internal affairs.
What was a common consequence of Prohibition?
What is the rise of organized crime
What was the Komagata Maru incident about?
What is denied entry to Indian immigrants
What was the purpose of the Bank of Canada when it was created in 1935, and how did it change Canada’s financial system?
What is to regulate credit and currency, stabilize the economy, and reduce reliance on private banks, giving the federal government more control over monetary policy.