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Twenties
The Great Depression
Miscellaneous
Thirties
Economic Activity
100
Banning the production, import and transportation of liquor across the country
What is prohibition
100
A hormone that breaks down and absorbs sugar and starch from the blood stream.
What is insulin? BONUS
100
A social and economic shock that left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and often homeless.
What is The Great Depression.
100
New inventions that brought change.
What are Radio, Automobiles, Aviation and Snowmoblies
200
The Pension Act happened in this year.
What is 1927? BONUS
200
An intense dislike for foreigners
What is xenophobia
200
Recession, Trough/ Depression, Recovery and Prosperity
What is The Business Cycle?
200
On May 15th, 30 000 additional workers in the city walked off the job, sparking this event.
What is the Winnipeg General Strike?
300
1922 Chanak Affair, 1923 Halibut Treaty, 1926 King-Byng Crisis are examples of...
What are The Six Steps Towards Autonomy? BONUS
300
The causes of the Great Depression.
What are Over Production and Over Expansion, Canadas Dependence on a Few Primary Products, Canadas Dependence on United States, etc.
300
A virus brought from soldiers in Europe that often ended up with pneumonia.
What is The Spanish Flu?
300
Who was in power during the dirty 30s?
Who are 1) RB Bennet 2) W.L. Mackenzie King
300
Examples of the economy on the upswing include...
What are Wheat on the Prairies, Pulp and Paper, Hydroelectric Power, Oil and Gas, Mining? BONUS
400
What qualified some for top pension?
What is over the age of 70, British, lived in Canada over 20 years.
400
Banned all Chinese, except students, merchants, and diplomats from entering Canada.
What is the Chinese exclusion act
400
The Governor Generals Awards were presented for this.
What is literature?
400
The biggest foreign investors in Canada.
Who are The British?
500
What are 5 programs that helped veterans after WW1?
What is 1) Vocation training program 2) Pensions 3) Unemployment 4) Free medical care 5) Canadian National Institute for the Blind
500
Radio broadcasts, news papers, glossy magazines, billboards and movies poured in from the US, this was known as....
What is Mass Media Advertising
500
Rates for this over the country saw that a family of five varied from $60 in Calgary to $19 in Halifax.
What is Relief.
500
The Stock Market crashed in October 1929, this date is referred to as....
What is Black Tuesday