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1
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What were the main demands of Canadian workers after World War One?

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higher wages, better working conditions, union rights

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What was the political outcome of the King-Byng Affair?

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It led to a change in the role of the Governor General.

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What made the Great Depression especially challenging for Canadians living on the Prairies?

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widespread drought that destroyed crops

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Which politician is associated with the quotation above?

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Mackenzie King

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Cape Breton strikes

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labour wars of the early 1920s represented an intense local episode of class conflict

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Socialism

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social and economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy

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Communism

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a social and economic theory
that property, production, and distribution
of goods and services should be owned by
the public, and the labour force organized
for the benefit of all

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One Big Union

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At the Western Labour
Conference in March 1919, union leaders from Western Canada founded . It represent all Canadian
workers

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Winnipeg General Strike

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Massive strike workers had in winnipeg in 1919

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Collective bargaining

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negotiation of a
contract between unions and management
regarding such things as wages
and working conditions

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J.S. Woodsworth

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chosen as party leader. The party platform,
known as the Regina Manifesto, opposed free-market economics and supported
public ownership of key industries

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Regionalism

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a concern for the affairs of
one’s own region over those of one’s
country

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Progressive Party

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s election platform was based on their proposed

National Policy, calling for free trade and to nationalize the railways

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

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chosen to lead the Liberals in

1919

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Arthur Meighan

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Canadian lawyer and politician. He served two terms as the ninth Prime Minister of Canada: from 10 July 1920 to 29 December 1921; and from 29 June 1926 to 25 September 192

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Minority government

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a government in
which the ruling party has less than half
the total number of seats in the legislature

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17
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Old Age Pension Act

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an Act passed in
1927 to provide social assistance to
people over 70

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Chanak Crisis

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a war scare in September 1922 between Britain and Republic of Turkey.

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Halibut Treaty

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a 1923 Canadian–American agreement concerning fishing rights in the northern Pacific Ocean

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King-Byng Crisis

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a situation that occurred
in 1926 when Governor General Byng
refused Prime Minister King’s request to
dissolve Parliament and call an election

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Imperial Conference o

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1926 that Canada made the greatest
progress toward changing its legal dependence on Britain. a meeting of the
leaders of the countries in the British
Empire

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Balfour Report

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the conclusions of the
1926 Imperial Conference that acknowledged
that Canada was an autonomous
community within the British Empire

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Autonomy

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y the power to govern oneself

and make one’s own decisions

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Statute of Westminster

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the law that
changed the British Empire into the British
Commonwealth; all commonwealth
countries to be considered equal in status
with Britain and able to make their own
laws

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British Commonwealth

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association of
nations that were formerly colonies of the
British Empire

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Branch plants

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Factories or operations set up in Canada but owned
or controlled by U.S. or other foreign
companies

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Primary industries

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an industry that deals
with the extraction or collection of raw
materials, such as mining or forestry

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Secondary industries

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an industry that deals

with manufacturing or construction

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29
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Prohibition

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the ban of alcohol

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Plebiscite

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a direct vote by electors on an
issue of public importance; the outcome
of the vote may not be binding on the government

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31
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Urbanization

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the process by which an

area changes from rural to urban

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32
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Agnes Macphail

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First woman elected to parliment

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33
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Person’s Case

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Women being considered as equal to men

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34
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Emily Murphy

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part of the famous five who worked the :persons case”

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Famous Five”

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five Alberta women who

fought for the political status of women

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36
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Happy Days Are Here Again

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A song

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37
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Henry Ford

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The inventer of the Ford Car brand

38
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Model T ford

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popular
automobile was the Model T Ford. By the late 1920s, 50 percent of
Canadian homes had

39
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Bush pilots

A

flew geologists and
prospectors into remote areas to explore mining
opportunities.

40
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Frederick Banting

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a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter and Nobel laureate noted as the first person that used insulin on human

41
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Group of Seven

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group of Canadian

landscape painters in the 1920s

42
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Emily Carr

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a unique Canadian artist and writer.

Born in 1871 in Victoria, B.C.

43
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Potlatch Challenge

A

an important cultural ceremony among certain peoples of the
Pacific Coast. At this ceremony, births, deaths, marriages, and other significant
events were recorded in the oral tradition

44
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Aboriginal title

A

claims by Aboriginal peoples

to lands that their ancestors inhabited

45
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cut-off lands”

A

s lands taken from reserves

without consent of the Aboriginal peoples

46
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Ku Klux Klan

A

n, founded
in the southern United States, promoted
fanatical racial and religious hatred against
non-Protestants and non-white

47
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Chinese Exclusion Act

A

an Act that tried to halt Chinese

immigration altogether.

48
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Stock Market Crash 1929

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1929 The stock market crash that kick started the depression

49
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buying on margin

A

borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock

50
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Depression

A

a severe economic downturn

in the global economy in the 1930s

51
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Causes of the Great Depression

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triggered by the 1929 stock market crash although caused by Debt from ww1 being too close to USA and over production (suply and demand)

52
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Overproduction

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more goods being produced
than being sold; leads to a
decrease in production, which leads to
increased unemployment

53
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Suply and demand

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Demand refers to how much (quantity) of a product or service is desired by buyers. Suply is how much you make

54
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Tariffs

A

taxes on imported goods

55
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Protectionism

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m a system of using tariffs to
raise the price of imported goods in order
to protect domestic producers

56
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Depression’s impact on Canada

A

Stuff

57
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riding the rods

A

an unemployed person who
moves from place to place in search of
work

58
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pogey

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relief payments by a government,
sometimes in the form of vouchers for
food and other essentials

59
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Prairie drought

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A severe drought in Alberta that caused dust storms

60
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Anti-Semitism

A

discrimination or hostility

toward Jewish people

61
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Mackenzie King’s “five-cent speech”

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not providing unemployment relief to the provinces from the Canadian federal government, saying it was not an obligation under the British North America Act. He felt the provinces were responsible for their own welfare.

62
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R.B. Bennett

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PM in 1930 had little vision to help in the great depression

63
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Bennett blanket

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A newspaper. People began to name things after benntt as they were taking their anger out

64
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Communist Party of Canada

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An enemy party that Bennett was afraid people would join in the 1930’s. Bennett made a law to outlaw these people

65
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Tim Buck

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the leader of the communist party of Canada

66
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Work camps

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r single men in an attempt to provide relief from
the Depression. Men worked on projects such as building roads, clearing
land, and digging drainage ditches. They were paid $0.20 a day and given
room and board.

67
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On-to-Ottawa Trek

A

a 1935 rail trip from
Vancouver to Ottawa (stopped at Regina)
by unemployed men to protest conditions
at employment relief camps

68
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Regina Riot

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a riot that occurred when
police attempted to clear On-to-Ottawa
trekkers from a stadium in Regina

69
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Laissez-faire economics

A

an economic condition in
which industry is free of government
intervention

70
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Government intervention

A

Governments interveining in the countries problems

71
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Relief payments

A

payments to help stuggleing people

72
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The New Deal

A 
a series of programs, such as
social assistance for the aged and unemployed,
introduced by U.S. president
Roosevelt in the 1930s to deal with the
Depression
73
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Protest parties

A

A political party in 1930. was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces and, in Manitoba, ran candidates and formed governments as the Progressive Party of Manitoba

74
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Cooperative Commonwealth Federation

A

Canada’s first socialist party
founded in the Prairies in 1932; advocated
government control of the economy

75
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J.S. Woodsworth

A

was chosen as party leader. The party platform,

known as the Regina Manifesto in the CCF

76
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Regina Manifesto

A 
platform of the Co-operative
Commonwealth Federation party; it
supported public ownership of industry
and social programs to assist those in
need
77
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Social Credit Party

A

political party founded

in Western Canada; opposed to capitalism

78
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William Aberhart

A

Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943 came to power based on the popularity
of his theory of social credit.

79
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Maurice Duplessis

A

, a former Conservative, joined forces with

some disillusioned Liberals to form the Union nationale

80
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Union Nationale

A

a party that

supported Québec nationalism

81
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Rowell-Sirois Commission

A 
report of the Royal
Commission on Dominion-Provincial
Relations, a commission set up in 1937 to
examine the Canadian economy and
federal-provincial relations
82
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Equalization payments

A

a federal transfer

of funds from richer to poorer provinces

83
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CBC

A

the Canadian Radio
Broadcasting Commission
(CRBC) in 1932, Created by Bennett

84
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Dionne quintuplets

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are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. Born May 28 1934

85
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Totalitarianism

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is a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible.

86
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Fascism

A

governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism

87
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Kristallnacht

A

a coordinated attack against
Jewish people and their property carried
out by Nazis in Germany on November 9,
1938

88
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Appeasement

A

giving in to an
aggressor’s demands in the hopes that no
more demands will be made

89
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German invasion of Poland

A

Once Germans did this, then two days later then britian joined and we joined soon after

90
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Isolationism

A

the policy of remaining apart

from the affairs of other countries

91
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S.S. St. Louis

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A ship of Jewish refugues that no one wanted to harbor.. Canada refused to let them in and many of them died soon once they returned to europe.

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