Sickness and Suffrage
This deadly global pandemic hit Canada at the end of WWI, killing more Canadians than the war itself.
What is the Spanish Flu?
This was the name for the legal ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol in Canada and the United States
What is Prohibition?
This 1926 document explained that Canada and other dominions were equal in status to Britain, no longer subordinate.
What is the Balfour Report?
This event in October 1929, when stock prices collapsed on Wall Street, is widely seen as the trigger of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)?
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett's initial response to the Depression was to raise these — taxes on imported goods — which actually made trade worse
What are tariffs?
Two government responses to the Spanish Flu included closing these public gathering places and mandating these face coverings
What are schools/churches/theatres (closures) and masks?
These illegal bars operated secretly during Prohibition, and the criminals who smuggled alcohol across borders were called this.
What are speakeasies and rumrunners?
Canada's economy boomed in the 1920s partly due to high demand for these two natural resources: one grown on the Prairies, and one cut from forests
What are wheat and lumber (or pulp and paper)?
This dangerous economic practice — buying stocks by only paying a small percentage upfront and borrowing the rest — contributed to the crash
What is buying on margin?
This policy introduced by Bennett in 1935 included minimum wage and unemployment insurance — but came too late to save his government.
What is Bennett's New Deal?
n 1916, Manitoba became the first province to grant women this right. By 1918 it was extended federally — except in Quebec until 1940
What is the right to vote (women's suffrage)?
These young women of the 1920s challenged norms by cutting their hair short, wearing short skirts, dancing, smoking, and going out unchaperoned
Who are Flappers?
In 1922, Canada's Prime Minister King refused Britain's request to commit troops to a conflict in Turkey, what is this called?
Name TWO causes of the Great Depression.
What are overproduction, drought/Dust Bowl, high tariffs , falling wheat prices, over-reliance on exports, credit/debt?
This left-wing party, founded in 1932, pushed for social programs, public ownership, and relief for workers and farmers.
What is the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation)?
Known as the "_______" this group of women fought the Persons Case, which ruled in 1929 that women were legally considered "persons."
Flappers were significant because they challenged these two things that had long restricted women's lives
What are traditional gender roles and social expectations?
This group of Canadians did NOT benefit from the 1920s boom, struggling with falling crop prices, drought, and debt.
Who are Prairie farmers?
During the Depression, many Prairie farmers were forced to abandon their farms due to this.
This Alberta party proposed giving every citizen $25/month.
What is the Social Credit Party?
This Manitoba politician led campaigns for women's suffrage and temperance, once staging a mock parliament to satirize Premier Roblin.
Who is Nellie McClung?
What is the Radio?
Sounds like a thing made out of marble, but was actually the culmination of Canada's steps towards autonomy.
A relief camp worker's wage.
What is 20 cents?
This party promoted fascist-style ideas and was inspired by movements in Europe during the 1930s. You'll have to race to google this one!
What is the Canadian Union of Fascists?