Unit 2 1920s Flashcards
Flappers
Liberated women who experienced change as a result of their workplace conditions during ww1 dressed in boyish style and had a change in behaviour
Drugstore cow boys
Men experienced less drastic change. More style choice. Zoot suits baggy pants oversized hats greased back hair. Led an active social life.
Charlie Chaplin
The worlds first big actor.
Nickelodeons
5 cent movies
Mary Pickford
Canadian actress! Very big in the 1920s
Invention
An object created by an individual which is brand new
Innovation
Taking an already existing object and making it better
Fad
Object or item which is very popular for a short period of time example crossword puzzles or contests
Gadget
Small household device designed to save time And is convenient
Tin Lizzy
Nickname for the model t Ford
Henry Ford
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
Branch plants
Jobs + widespread availability. Significant because once the world was in a depression tons of people lost their jobs
Alexander graham bell
Invented the telephone
Party lines
One single shared phone line among many people.
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist. First person that used insulin on humans
Joseph bombardier
Canadian inventor and businessman and is famous for his creation of the snowmobile.
Chanel affair and date
- 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
Halibut treaty and date
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.
King-Byng crisis
1926 the Governor General had clashed with the prime minister.
Balfour report
1926 dominion of states want political change. The Balfour report gave Britain’s dominions including Canada formal recognition
Mckenzie king
Canadian prime minister who delt with the king-byng crisis
General byng
Canada’s Governor General in 1926
Wheat
Record wheat crops in the prairies. 2 new types of wheat developed
Pulp and paper
News paper industry! People wanted to be informed
Hydro-electricity
Power saver! Cheaper safer and cleaner them coal and wood.
Oil
1914 discovery of oil in Alberta increase sales and production for auto industry
Minerals
Copper, nickel, zinc, iron in the Canadian Shield = international trade
Stock market crash day
October 29 1929
Causes of the Great Depression
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
Prime ministers during the 1920s
Mackenzie king 1935-1948 r.b.bennett 1930-1935
Illegal bars
Blind pigs or speakeasies
Smugglers
Bootleggers rum runners
Date of the st. Valentine’s Day massacre
1929
Prohibition
Forbidding drinking, selling, having alcohol
Al scarface Capone
Leader of some of the worst organized crime.
Date of prohibition
1919-1933
Famous five
The famous five were five women who spoke out and asked the Supreme Court if the term “persons” include women.
Persons case
Canadian constitution case that decided that women were able to be apart of the Canadian senate.
When were women legally known as a person
October 28 1924
Louise McKinney
Member of the famous 5
Irene parlby
Member of the famous 5
Henrietta Edwards
Member of the famous 5
