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Unit 2 1920s Flashcards

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Flappers

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Liberated women who experienced change as a result of their workplace conditions during ww1 dressed in boyish style and had a change in behaviour

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Drugstore cow boys

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Men experienced less drastic change. More style choice. Zoot suits baggy pants oversized hats greased back hair. Led an active social life.

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Charlie Chaplin

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The worlds first big actor.

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Nickelodeons

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5 cent movies

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Mary Pickford

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Canadian actress! Very big in the 1920s

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Invention

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An object created by an individual which is brand new

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Innovation

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Taking an already existing object and making it better

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Fad

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Object or item which is very popular for a short period of time example crossword puzzles or contests

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Gadget

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Small household device designed to save time And is convenient

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Tin Lizzy

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Nickname for the model t Ford

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Henry Ford

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American invented and businessman who founded Ford motor co. Famous for the invention of the tin Lizzy which became the most owned car in the 1920s. He invented the assembly line and minimum wage

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Branch plants

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Jobs + widespread availability. Significant because once the world was in a depression tons of people lost their jobs

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Alexander graham bell

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Invented the telephone

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Party lines

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One single shared phone line among many people.

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Frederick Banting

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Canadian medical scientist. First person that used insulin on humans

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Joseph bombardier

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Canadian inventor and businessman and is famous for his creation of the snowmobile.

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Chanel affair and date

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  1. A army in turkey was threatening to occupy a neutral zone. The British decided to go to war and asked Canada to join but we said no. This is significant because we would no longer follow Britain
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Halibut treaty and date

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1923 Canada was making a fishing agreement with the United States. Canada wanted to make this agreement with the USA without having any British involvement.

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King-Byng crisis

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1926 the Governor General had clashed with the prime minister.

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Balfour report

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1926 dominion of states want political change. The Balfour report gave Britain’s dominions including Canada formal recognition

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Mckenzie king

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Canadian prime minister who delt with the king-byng crisis

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General byng

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Canada’s Governor General in 1926

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Wheat

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Record wheat crops in the prairies. 2 new types of wheat developed

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Pulp and paper

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News paper industry! People wanted to be informed

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Hydro-electricity

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Power saver! Cheaper safer and cleaner them coal and wood.

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Oil

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1914 discovery of oil in Alberta increase sales and production for auto industry

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Minerals

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Copper, nickel, zinc, iron in the Canadian Shield = international trade

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Stock market crash day

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October 29 1929

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Causes of the Great Depression

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Mopcuts margin buying- borrowing money from the bank in order to buy shares in to stock market overproduction and over expansion manufacturers keeper producing even tho everyone owned the goods primary industries the world economy slowed down credit buying (buy now pay later) us dependency close connections to the us meant Canada lost trading partners and the is closed branch plants meaning Canadians lost their jobs. Tariffs countries raise taxes on imported goods. Stock market crash people’s investments in stocks crashed

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Prime ministers during the 1920s

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Mackenzie king 1935-1948 r.b.bennett 1930-1935

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Illegal bars

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Blind pigs or speakeasies

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Smugglers

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Bootleggers rum runners

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Date of the st. Valentine’s Day massacre

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1929

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Prohibition

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Forbidding drinking, selling, having alcohol

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Al scarface Capone

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Leader of some of the worst organized crime.

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Date of prohibition

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1919-1933

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Famous five

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The famous five were five women who spoke out and asked the Supreme Court if the term “persons” include women.

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Persons case

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Canadian constitution case that decided that women were able to be apart of the Canadian senate.

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When were women legally known as a person

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October 28 1924

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Louise McKinney

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Member of the famous 5

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Irene parlby

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Member of the famous 5

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Henrietta Edwards

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Member of the famous 5

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