1920s & 1930s

Question 1

What was bootlegging?

Answer 1

The illegal production and distribution of alcohol.

Question 2

Explain ‘buying on margin’.

Answer 2

Purchasing stock with a small percentage of money down.

Question 3

What was Prohibition?

Answer 3

The law that prohibited the production and consumption of alcohol.

Question 4

Who were flappers?

Answer 4

Stylish women from the 1920s who were seen as rebels.

Question 5

Who was Agnes MacPhail?

Answer 5

The first female member of Parliament, elected to the House of Commons in 1921.

Question 6

What was a ‘speakeasy’?

Answer 6

An illegal drinking establishment.

Question 7

Who were the Famous Five?

Answer 7

Suffragettes responsible for promoting women’s rights in Canada.

Question 8

Who was Mary Pickford?

Answer 8

A famous actress from Canada who was considered “America’s Sweetheart”.

Question 9

What was an assembly line?

Answer 9

A production method developed by Henry Ford.

Question 10

What were dustbowls?

Answer 10

Clouds of dirt that swept through the Prairie’s in the thirties.

Question 11

Who was Frederick Banting?

Answer 11

The man who proved insulin could be used to treat diabetes.

Question 12

What was the Charleston?

Answer 12

A popular dance from the 1920s.

Question 13

Who was R.B. Bennett?

Answer 13

The Conservative Prime Minister during the 1930s.

Question 14

What was escapism?

Answer 14

How people distracted themselves from the hardships of the Depression.

Question 15

What was ‘riding the rails’?

Answer 15

A term used to describe young unemployed men who rode freight trains looking for work.

Question 16

What was the Bennett Buggy?

Answer 16

A nickname for a car pulled by a horse during the Depression.

Question 17

What was the “On to Ottawa Trek”?

Answer 17

Unemployed men traveling to the capital to protest lack of work.

Question 18

What was ‘hooch’?

Answer 18

Nickname for illegal alcohol.

Question 19

What was ‘relief’?

Answer 19

Voucher payments given to families during the Depression.

Question 20

Explain what is meant by the Great Depression.

Answer 20

A period of economic depression, marked by a severe decline in business activity, began in 1929 and lasted through the 1930s.

Question 21

What’s the stock market?

Answer 21

A place where bonds, stocks, or shares of corporate capital are bought and sold.

Question 22

What was the Statute of Westminster?

Answer 22

The bill that gave Canada complete control over their relations with other countries.

Question 23

What was the Winnipeg General Strike?

Answer 23

A six week period of intense labour unrest which began in May 1919 and ended in violence.

Question 24

What does ‘pogey’ mean?

Answer 24

A slang term for government vouchers for food, boots, clothing, coal, and shelter.

Question 25

What was the term 'jungles' slang for?

Answer 25

Relief camps where homeless, single men could find work.

Question 26

What's the business cycle?

Answer 26

The upswings and downswings in the economy over a number of years.

Question 27

What are Black Blizzards? `

Answer 27

Sand storms in the prairies.

Question 28

What was the Regina Riot?

Answer 28

A riot between the RCMP and the On-to-Ottawa trekkers.

Question 29

Who was the first woman elected to the Canadian senate?

Answer 29

Nellie McClung

Question 30

Who was the first female MP in Canada?

Answer 30

Agnes MacPhail

Question 31

Who led the "Person's Case", and when was it?

Answer 31

Emily Murphy in 1929

Question 32

What was the event where Mackenzie King first showed Britain it couldn't automatically expect military allegiance from Canada?

Answer 32

The Chanak Affair.

Question 33

Who was the Prime Minister from 1921-1930?

Answer 33

Mackenzie King

Question 34

When were Chinese people banned from immigrating to Canada, and what was the act that prevented them from doing so?

Answer 34

The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923.

Question 35

What was the socialist party led by Tommy Douglas?

Answer 35

The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.

Question 36

What was the date of the stock market crash, and what was another name for it?

Answer 36

October 29, 1929, and another name for it was Black Tuesday.

Question 37

A social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages.

Answer 37

The Temperance Movement.

Question 38

What is the name of the ship that had Jewish refugees and was refused entrance into Canada?

Answer 38

SS St Louis

Question 39

The act of Parliament which established legislative equality for Canada and the rest of Britain's Commonwealth countries was called what?

Answer 39

The Statute of Westminster.

Question 40

When was the Statute of Westminster passed?

Answer 40

1931