Histor quiz pt 2 Flashcards
On what date did the Stock Market Crash?
October 29, 1929
What was a flapper?
It was a young woman known for wearing short dresses and bobbed hair to embrace freedom from tradition.
first woman MP?
Agnes Campbell Macphail
What was a speakeasy?
A place where alcoholic beverages are illegally sold.
A type of architecture made popular in the Twenties. What type of music was popular?
Art Deco was popular. Jazz
What is a bootlegger?
It was illegal transportation, sale of alcoholic beverages and illegal manufacture.
Who was known as Scarface?
Think AGC
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
What was a Tin Lizzie?
It was a small cheap automobile in a run-down condition.
What was meant by ‘buying on margin’?
Borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock.
What was the first plane to fly solo, non-stop, across the Atlantic Ocean?
St Louis.
Famous for their paintings of the Canadian north?
Ted Harrison.
Explain how some people might have benefited from the Depression
people learned to be more resourceful
By March of 1933, what percentage of wage earners were unemployed?
30%
On what date did the Stock Market Crash?
October 29, 1929
