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The Spanish Flu was a huge outbreak of influenza. The outbreak had become a world wide pandemic killing millions of people around the world. The flu started in Western Europe and lasted about a year. -
The Winnipeg General Strike was a strike was to unite the working class in Canada. Over 30 000 workers left their employment to strike. The strike ended a month later, June 25. The aftermath of the strike were arrests, injuries, and deaths of two protesters. -
Bloody Saturday was a result of the Winnipeg General Strike. The city was in total mayhem, people were very shot tempered and people would attack one another. People died due to the strike. After Bloody Saturday the strike ended 4 days later. -
Flappers of the 1920s were women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many as outrageous, downright dangerous. The first generation of independent American women, flappers pushed barriers to economic, political and sexual freedom for women. -
The Jazz Age is the time period in the 1920s and 1930s when jazz music dance gained widespread popularity.Speakeasies, illegal saloons and socially active people could hang out, drink alcohol, and listen to jazz. Jazz music was played heavily in these speakeasies.
Artists like Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and Duke Ellington performed at speakeasies. -
The 1920s has been called the Golden Age of American Sports. It also has been called the Age of the Spectator. Many workers had more leisure time. The introduction of radio made it easier for fans to keep up with their favorite teams. More people went to baseball games, people followed baseball, and people played baseball for fun. The most famous athlete in the United States in the 1920s was baseball star Babe Ruth. Bebe Ruth hit more home runs than any player had ever hit before. -
Prohibition started January 17th 1920 and ended December 5th 1933. Selling and transporting alcohol was illegal in the United States. The temperance movement was what led to prohibition. -
The radio was a form of entertainment that grew in popularity in the 1920s. The radio included radio shows, music, and more. The decade started off in 1921 with just 5 radio stations but ended with 606 stations. -
In 1923 the Chinese Exclusion Act started. The Act lasted 24 years, it ended in 1947. Chinese people weren't allowed to enter Canada. Less then 100 Chinese people were allowed in the country at a time. The Chinese people that were able to get into Canada it was extremely hard for them to live. It was almost impossible to get a job or a house. -
Before the late 1920's, movies were silent. These silent movies were extremely popular, but came second to live preformances. The first motion picture with sound, Don Juan (1926), to showcase this new technology. While it did receive massive success in box offices around the world, many producers refused to adapt to the new technology as they felt the "talkies" would never replace silent films. -
The Persons Case was a constitutional ruling. It established the right of women to serve in the Senate. The case was started by the five women activists. In 1928, they objected to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that women were not “persons.” The five women challenged the law. In 1929, the decision was reversed. Women were legally recognized as “persons.” They could no longer be denied rights based on a narrow reading of the law. -
The stock market crashed because companies produced too many goods and the prices of the goods went down. There was little demand and too much supply. Soon after the crash many businesses went bankrupt, and tens of thousands of Canadians lost their jobs. This made the economy worse. When more businesses went bankrupt, more people lost their jobs. It was a vicious cycle. -
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in hstory. It began in 1929 and didn't bounce back until the end of the 1930s. By 1930 there were 4.3 million unemployed; by 1931 8 million; and in 1932 the number had risen to 12 million. By early 1933, almost 13 million were out of work and the unemployment rate stood at an astonishing 25 percent. Those who managed to retain their jobs often took pay cuts of a third or more. -
The stock market crashed in an event known as Black Tuesday. This began a chain of events that led to the Great Depression. The 1920s had been a time of wealth and excess, and stock prices had risen to unprecedented levels. This encouraged many people to speculate that the market would continue to rise. -
The stock market crashed because companies produced too many goods and the prices of the goods went down. There was little demand and too much supply. Soon after the crash many businesses went bankrupt, and tens of thousands of Canadians lost their jobs. This made the economy worse. When more businesses went bankrupt, more people lost their jobs. It was a vicious cycle. -
Relief meant that the president wanted to help those in crisis immediately by creating jobs, bread lines, and welfare. Recovery was aimed at fixing the economy and ending the Depression. Reforms objective of finding the sources of the Depression and creating a plan so that it would never happen again. Relief camps were open to unemployed men to work physical labour for penny's to provide at least a little bit for their families during the Great Depression. -
The first Residential school was opened Brantford Ontario in 1831. These schools were for Indigenous children to attend after being ripped from their families. These schools were ran by United churches and nuns were the teachers in these schools. Indigenous children were wiped of all Indigenous culture and were white washed. The kids endured physical, mental, and sexual abuse during their time at the school. The last school was closed in 1996.