The Roaring 20s
What nickname was given to the 1920s because of economic growth, parties, and cultural change?
What are the Roaring Twenties?
What major economic crisis began in 1929 and lasted throughout much of the 1930s?
What is the Great Depression?
Who was Canada's Prime Minister when the Great Depression began in 1929?
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
What type of movies, which had no recorded dialogue, were popular during the early 1920s?
What are silent films?
What word describes the economic conditions after a recovery phrase that see an economy surpass its previous peak?
What is prosperity?
What technology allowed Canadians to listen to news, music, and entertainment in their homes?
What is the radio?
What dates in October 1929 saw stock prices collapse and helped trigger the Great Depression?
What are Black Thursday (Oct 24, 1929) and Black Tuesday (Oct 29. 1929)?
What country did Canada gradually become more politically independent from during the 1920s?
What is Britain?
What musical genre, associated with lively rhythms and improvisation, became very popular during the 1920s?
What is jazz?
What discriminatory 1923 Canadian law effectively banned almost all Chinese immigration to Canada?
What is the Chinese Immigration Act (Chinese Exclusion Act)?
What famous Canadian art group formed in 1920 and became known for painting Canadian landscapes?
What is the Group of Seven?
What environmental disaster caused severe drought, soil erosion, and massive dust storms across the Canadian Prairies?
What is the Dust Bowl?
What 1929 legal decision determined that women were legally considered "persons" and could be appointed to the Canadian Senate?
What is the Persons Case?
Canada's first female magistrate, this judge lead the Famous Five to win their monumental Persons Case.
Who is Emily Murphy?
What traditional First Nations Ceremony was banned by the Canadian government under the Indian Act and remained illegal during the 1920s and 1930s?
What is the potlatch?
What new style of women's fashion became popular in the 1920s, featuring shorter dresses and shorter hairstyles?
What is the flapper style?
What does the term unemployment mean, and was one Conservative Prime Minister's approach to resolving it?
It means people who are able and willing to find work cannot find jobs. Prime Minister R.B. Bennett created Relief Camps that paid low wages to single, unemployed men.
Who was the conservative Prime Minister who replaced Mackenzie King in 1930 and led Canada through much of the early Depression?
Who is R.B. Bennett?
What famous British Columbia artist became known for paintings of Indigenous villages, forests, and landscapes of the West Coast?
Who is Emily Carr?
What was the name of the 1935 protest in which unemployed men travelled from Vancouver towards Ottawa to demand better conditions?
What is the On-to-Ottawa Trek?
In 1918, the federal government imposed this temporary wartime ban on alcohol, which lasted only until 1920, the first and only time Canada had a national prohibition.
What is the War Measures Act prohibition order?
Identify two major causes of the Great Depression besides the stock market crash?
Ex. Overproduction, Overexpansion, Consumer debt, Bank failures, Declining international trade, Dependence on the US, Lack of diverse economy, Too much credit buying
What 1931 agreement gave Canada and other British dominions greater legislative independence from Britain?
What is the Statute of Westminster?
How did the growth of radio and movies change Canadian society during the 1920s and 1930s? Give two examples.
Why did unemployed men participate in the On-to-Ottawa Trek, and how did the governent respond?
They protested poor conditions and low wages in government relief camps. The federal government stopped the trek, and a confrontation in Regina became known as the Regina Riot.