Unit 2 1920s

Question 1

Flappers

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Drugstore cow boys

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Charlie Chaplin

Answer 3

The worlds first big actor.

Question 4

Nickelodeons

Answer 4

5 cent movies

Question 5

Mary Pickford

Answer 5

Canadian actress! Very big in the 1920s

Question 6

Invention

Answer 6

An object created by an individual which is brand new

Question 7

Innovation

Answer 7

Taking an already existing object and making it better

Question 8

Fad

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Gadget

Answer 9

Small household device designed to save time And is convenient

Question 10

Tin Lizzy

Answer 10

Nickname for the model t Ford

Question 11

Henry Ford

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Branch plants

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Alexander graham bell

Answer 13

Invented the telephone

Question 14

Party lines

Answer 14

One single shared phone line among many people.

Question 15

Frederick Banting

Answer 15

Canadian medical scientist. First person that used insulin on humans

Question 16

Joseph bombardier

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Chanel affair and date

Answer 17

1922. 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

Question 18

Halibut treaty and date

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

King-Byng crisis

Answer 19

1926 the Governor General had clashed with the prime minister.

Question 20

Balfour report

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Mckenzie king

Answer 21

Canadian prime minister who delt with the king-byng crisis

Question 22

General byng

Answer 22

Canada’s Governor General in 1926

Question 23

Wheat

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Pulp and paper

Answer 24

News paper industry! People wanted to be informed

Question 25

Hydro-electricity

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Oil

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Minerals

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Stock market crash day

Answer 28

October 29 1929

Question 29

Causes of the Great Depression

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Prime ministers during the 1920s

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Illegal bars

Answer 31

Blind pigs or speakeasies

Question 32

Smugglers

Answer 32

Bootleggers rum runners

Question 33

Date of the st. Valentine's Day massacre

Answer 33

1929

Question 34

Prohibition

Answer 34

Forbidding drinking, selling, having alcohol

Question 35

Al scarface Capone

Answer 35

Leader of some of the worst organized crime.

Question 36

Date of prohibition

Answer 36

1919-1933

Question 37

Famous five

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Persons case

Answer 38

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

Question 39

When were women legally known as a person

Answer 39

October 28 1924

Question 40

Louise McKinney

Answer 40

Member of the famous 5

Question 41

Irene parlby

Answer 41

Member of the famous 5

Question 42

Henrietta Edwards

Answer 42

Member of the famous 5