1920-1933 Flashcards
Prohibition
A period when the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol beverages was illegal
Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections
Temperance Movement
A movement to reduce the drinking of alcohol.
Rum runners
People who smuggled alcohol
Bootleggers
People who illegally sold alcohol
Speakeasie
Illegal bars
Flappers
young women known for their short hair, short skirts, and rebellious attitude
Model T
a car made by ford, first car to be mass produced on assembly lines
Assembly lines
a method of production in a product
Stocks- buying on credit
Buying stocks with borrowed money
Winnipeg General Strike
lasting six weeks and involving 30,000 workers, sought better wages, improved working conditions, and the right to collective bargaining,.
jazz age
when jazz music was popularized
Stock market crash 1929
The drop of stock value and began the start of the Great Depression
Persons Case
A case where the supreme court of canada ruled that women were not persons and couldn’t be appointed to the senate
Chanak Affair
situation involving Turkey, Greece and Britain over a Turkish city called Chanak
