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The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer of the Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic
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The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most famous and influential strikes in Canadian history.Wages were low, prices were rising, employment was unstable, immigrants faced discrimination, housing and health conditions were poor. Soldiers returning from the war were determined to see improved social conditions and opportunities after their harrowing experiences overseas.
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In 1920, amendments to the Indian Act make it mandatory for every Indian child between the ages of seven and six- teen years, to attend Indian residential school. If parents refused they would be threatened with jail. usually when the children went to school they would never return home or they would return between the ages of 16-18 years old.
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The Group of Seven, also known as the Algonquin School, was a school of landscape painters. It was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists and disbanded in 1933. The group presented the dense, northern boreal forest of the Canadian Shield as a transcendent, spiritual force.
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Flappers of the 1920s were young women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral or downright dangerous. Now considered the first generation of independent American women, flappers pushed barriers to economic, political and sexual freedom for women.
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The Jazz Age, also known as the Roaring Twenties, was an era of history that began after World War I and ended with the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. it was the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression during which jazz became popular.
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The Prohibition Era began in 1920 when the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors, went into effect with the passage of the Volstead Act. Despite the new legislation, Prohibition was difficult to enforce.
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In 1923, the Government of Canada revoked the head tax, a large fee charged to Chinese people entering Canada, replacing it with the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, which virtually halted all immigration from China. Over the next 24 years, only 44 Chinese migrants entered the country.
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The 1920s has been called the Golden Age of Sports. It also has been called the Age of the Spectator. Many workers had more leisure time.it was called the golden age because it was the beginning of high level competitive sport and tremendous athletes began to emerge in every sport. Previous to this time, it was a magnificent time for men sports, but the opposite was true for women.
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The gradual transition from silent films to talkies took place between 1926 and 1930 and included many small steps — both technological developments and adjustments to audience expectations — before it was complete.
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It established the right of women to serve in the Senate. The case was started by the Famous Five. They were a group of women activists. In 1928, they objected to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that women were not “persons.” As such, they were not allowed to serve in the Senate
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he Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in history. It began in 1929 and did not end until the end of the 1930s. The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent and more than 5,000 banks had gone out of business.
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On October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed in an event known as Black Tuesday. This began a chain of events that led to the Great Depression, a 10-year economic slump that affected all industrialized countries in the world
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A Bennett buggy was a term used in Canada during the Great Depression to describe a car which had its engine, windows and sometimes frame work taken out and was pulled by a horse.
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Mackenzie King’s “Five Cent Speech” was about King’s belief that the Canadian government should not give unemployment benefits to provincial governments in Canada with Conservative leadership. The speech made King seem out of touch with the hardships of ordinary people and helped the Conservative opposition gain support.