Inventions of the 20s
the medicine that helped millions of people with diabetes.
insulin
gangsters used to smuggle this across the borders during prohibition.
alcohol
what activity did people participate in, in the 20s
dancing
what crashed in order to cause the great depression
the stock market.
what was the most well known strike of the time
the Winnipeg general strike
the affordable car mass produced in the 20s.
ford model t.
the most famous gangster of the time.
Al Capone
how much people in the USA had a TV at the time
around 8000
the government sent people with out jobs to camps what were the camps called
relief camps
in 1920 what organisation did Canada join?
the league of nations
the invention that let people talk to each other from long distances.
the telephone.
the reason people smuggled alcohol into America.
prohibition
the way people would listen to music and broadcast.
the radio
1000 people went on freight trains trailing to various cites.
Ottawa trek
what event caused the first day of the stock market crash.
black Thursday
the name of Canada's most famous ship that appears on the Canadian dime.
the bluenose.
why did people smuggle alcohol.
the alcohol ban.
the type of music that was very common in the 20s
jazz
what were the main foods during the great depression.
potato, union, peanut putter, and peas.
the nickname for the Canadian track team.
the matchless six
1927
the reason gangsters modified extremely common cars.
it would be harder to notice there car and they could outrun police easier.
what Canadian actor was known as the first american sweetheart.
Mary Pickford
the reason people withdrew all there money from there bank.
banking panics
who hosted the first hockey night in Canada.
Foster Hewitt