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The Chinese Exclusion Act was put in place to restrict immigration. They put a ten year ban on Chinese people immigrating to the United States. The only people excluded were merchants, teachers, students, travellers, and diplomats. -
The Model T was created in 1908. The Model T was meant to be affordable and simple. It was one of the first mass production vehicles which helped to decrease the price of the car since there was no worry of running out. This took place at Ford’s Highland Park Plant. -
The Spanish Flu occurred in 1918 and was incorrectly named Spanish Flu after Spain was one of the only countries that would report on it and share information to the common people. Approximately 500 million people around the world became infected with the Flu and about 50 million people world wide dying from it. It has been remarked as the most severe epidemic in recent history. -
The Jazz Age started shortly after World War One ended and right before the Great Depression started, it came into full swing in 1925. Everything during the Jazz Age was bigger and better such as the parties, the pace of things, and the buildings. Jazz was one of the few things during the Great Depression that helped people escape from the reality of things. -
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At the climax of the biggest strike during the twenties the Royal North-West Mounted Police and union busters rode in on horses and fired into the crowd of protesters killing only two people and injuring many others. The strike was caused by support for bargaining in the metal and building trades. -
Residential schools were created by the Catholic Church to try to assimilate indigenous children into white culture to try and slowly root out any indigenous people in Canada. The Catholic Church began forcibly removing indigenous children from their homes and forcing them to attend the schools. These schools did not meet any minimum standards for quality of life and many children later reported many cases of different types of abuse. -
A Flapper was a style for young women in the 1920’s that was much more scandalous in how they dressed compared to anything in the past. Flappers wore short knee length dresses, had bobbed hairstyles, listened/danced to jazz, and opposed what had been seen as acceptable behaviour for women before hand. Flappers were all about embracing their more boyish side and acting less femininely. -
Xenophobia is the dislike or prejudice against people from other countries or races. Canadians were very scared of immigrants in the 1920’s because of their different beliefs, specifically political beliefs. Canadians in the twenties were very scared of communism and that immigrants may turn their government into communism. -
Prohibition started during the First World War and was seen as a patriotic duty in solidarity for the troops at the time. Prohibition was the ban of consuming alcohol during the war and was illegal. This led to many underground pubs as well as a big spike in the crime of bootlegging. -
The radio was the first form of electronic enjoyment for the whole family during the 1920’s. At first there were only five radio stations. The radio allowed people living in isolated areas to access news of the country as well as entertainment. Radios had already existed and were used in the First World War however this was the first time they were used for entertainment. -
Insulin was first found in 1921 by a young surgeon and assistant from a dogs pancreas. People were at first very sceptical of insulin stating that it looked like “brown muck”. However this turned out to be the cure for many people who had been struggling with diabetes. This was a life saving discovery. -
The Persons Case started in 1927 and led to women having all the same rights as men. The Persons Case established that women have the right to serve in the senate and vote. Before this case the country of Canada did not acknowledge women as “people”. The change was not immediate however they had to go through many courts to gain the rights they sought for. -
Talkies were created in 1927 and they were the first type of movie created. They were short films that were shown in theatres. They were dialogues that were synchronized with a moving picture. They often included sound effect and music, not many had actual talking since that would’ve been much harder to synchronize. -
Black Tuesday also known as The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the day where the American stock market took a dive and crashed. Investors traded approximately 16 million shares at the New York Stock Exchange in one day. Almost all investors ended up bankrupt and without a home. -
The Great Depression started in the 1929’s. The Great Depression was an economic shock that plunged most of the world into a deep economic collapse. Most people lost their jobs and ended up living on the street. This happened right after the worlds economy was thriving. -
The Great Depression started in 1929 but come of causes of it are black Tuesday, the absence of world trade because of increasingly high tariffs, bank failure and panic from the economic crash, and the removal of the money supply. -
The Five Cent Speech was made in 1930 by William Lyon Mackenzie King. The speech was about how the Government of Canada should not give unemployment benefits to smaller governments in Canada that had Conservative leadership. This speech made it seem like King was inconsiderate of the Canadian hardships and ended up helping the opposition gain support. -
The Bennett buggy was a car that had no engine that was pulled by horses since people couldn’t afford gas for cars. The Bennett buggy was named after Richard Bennett as a joke since people thought he was incapable of taking care of the country during the Great Depression. -
There were many forms of relief during the Great Depression. One version of the relief was a food donation that would happen occasionally. There were also relief camps where able bodied men could trade their labour for all of the basic living necessities. This was put in place in 1932 by McNaughton. -
The new deal was put in place from 1933 to 1939 and was a form of security for the people because it gave them the ability to go back to work. Roosevelt believed that this New Deal could bring relief, reform and recovery to North America and perhaps even the rest of the world.