Roaring Twenties
This decade is known for jazz, parties, and economic growth.
What is the 1920s?
This event in 1929 triggered the start of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
He was Prime Minister of Canada during much of the Depression.
Who is R.B. Bennett?
The 1920s are often called this because of the exciting culture and nightlife.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
This is a piece of ownership in a company.
What is a stock?
This term describes women who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, and challenged gender norms.
What is a flapper?
Many people lost this when banks and businesses failed.
What are their jobs? / What is their savings?
This Prime Minister introduced the "Five-Cent Speech" and was criticized for it.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
This new form of entertainment became popular in theatres across Canada.
What are movies? / What are “talkies”?
Buying stocks with borrowed money was known as this risky strategy.
What is buying on margin?
After this war, many Canadians were eager to return to "normal life."
What is World War I?
Farmers in the Prairies were hit hard by this natural disaster.
What is a drought?
This group of workers often went on strike in the 1920s for better conditions.
Who are union workers?
This sport was popular and united Canadians during tough times.
What is hockey?
Prices rise when this is high and fall when it is low.
What is demand?
This invention brought music and news into Canadian homes.
What is the radio?
This was a common nickname for makeshift towns built by the unemployed.
What is a "Bennettville"?
The Progressive Party mostly represented this group of Canadians.
Who are farmers?
Many Indigenous children were taken from their homes and forced into these.
What are residential schools?
When people expect prices to keep rising, they do this with their money.
What is speculate?
This part of Canada felt left out and frustrated during the 1920s.
What is the West? / What are the Prairie Provinces?
This new political party was formed in the 1930s to fight for workers and farmers.
What is the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation)?
This major strike in 1919 happened just before the 1920s began.
What is the Winnipeg General Strike?
This law made alcohol illegal in parts of Canada for a time.
What is Prohibition?
This describes when stock prices are too high compared to their real value.
What is a bubble?