Terms
A shift from using human/manual labour to machinery.
What is Industrialization?
The day the stock market crashed, October 29th, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
The creator of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Racist organization dedicated to the supremacy of white people.
What is The Ku Klux Klan?
A popular entertainment medium that rose in the 1920s.
The growth and expansion of large cities, which involves large numbers of people moving to the city from rural locations.
What is urbanization?
This event made Canada gain more autonomy from Britain in 1926.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
Advocated for Canadian independence by resisting British efforts to establish a centralized foreign policy.
Who is Mackenzie King?
Young women who rejected social norms
What are Flappers?
A type of music that became popular in the 1920s.
What is jazz?
A legal document forbidding workers from joining unions or taking part in union activities.
What is the Yellow Dog Contract?
This court case advanced women's rights in Canada.
What is the Persons Case?
Leader of the CCF.
Who is J.S. Woodsworth?
These 5 women fought for women to be recognized as "persons"
Who are the Alberta Five?
The highest court of appeal in the 1920s.
What is the British Privy Council?
A movement that pushed for the banning of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
A drought and agricultural problem that led to struggles in the Prairies.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Leader of the Social Credit Party.
Who is William Aberhart?
What is the OBU (one big union)?
Illegal bars that emerged during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
Factories or businesses set up in Canada by American companies.
What are Branch Plants?
A political event that tested the limits of the Governor General's power and the authority of the Prime Minister.
What is the Constitutional Crisis?
The Governor General during the constitutional crisis.
Who is Julian Byng?
Who are First Nations people?
Canada's welcoming and restriction of immigrants.
What is the open and closed door policy?