The Jazz Age
Prohibition & Slang
Labour & Rights
The Dirty 30s
Hard Times & Causes
100

This term describes the modern 1920s woman who wore short hair and knee-length hemlines.

Flapper

100

This was the popular 1920s slang term for illegal alcohol.

Giggle Water

100

This 1919 event saw 35,000 Winnipeg workers walk off the job.

The Winnipeg General Strike

100

This term describes the 1930s era of severe drought and dust storms on the plains.

The Dust Bowl

100

This 1918 pandemic killed between 50 to 100 million people worldwide.

The Spanish Flu

200

This upbeat music style gave the 1920s its famous "Age" nickname.

Jazz

200

These secret, illegal bars were used to consume alcohol during Prohibition.

Speakeasies

200

This violent day on June 21, 1919, marked the turning point of the Winnipeg Strike.

Bloody Saturday

200

This October 1929 event is cited as the primary start of the Great Depression.

The Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)

200

This term refers to the process of returning soldiers to civilian life after WWI.

Demobilization

300

This high-energy dance craze was often viewed as "scandalous" by conservative society.

The Charleston

300

This homemade illegal alcohol was often mixed in large household containers.

Bathtub Gin

300

This 1929 legal victory finally recognized Canadian women as "persons" under the law.

The Persons Case

300

Due to extreme poverty and hunger, some desperate parents during the Great Depression were forced to do this, a practice captured in a famous 1948 photograph.

Publicly advertising or selling their children.

300

This 1917 disaster in Nova Scotia was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions.

The Halifax Explosion

400

Name two electrical appliances that modernized housework in the 1920s.

Vacuum cleaners, washing machines, electric stoves, or refrigerators

etc

400

This Canadian province held Prohibition for the longest period (1901–1948).

Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.)

400

This group of people were hired by wealthy business leaders and politicians to oppose strikers and spread anti-union propaganda.

Criminals!!!

400

This system allowed 1920s consumers to buy expensive items with borrowed money.

Buying on Credit

400

This economic problem occurred when factories made more goods than people could buy.

Overproduction

500

This famous group of landscape painters created a distinct Canadian art style.

The Group of Seven

500

This specific term refers to smuggling illegal alcohol across water.

Rumrunning

500

This 1919 labour movement aimed to unite all workers into one massive union.

One Big Union (OBU)

500

Although other factors helped, this global event finally ended the Depression as governments bought war supplies and factories hired millions.

WW2

500

What is "stock"?

can be explained many ways.