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Golden Age Of Sports
The golden age of sports were also known as the age of the spectators. Sports became really popular between 1850-1950 and is still popular to this day. The united states had a strong economy and was able to create and build new sports at the time. Gymnastics, hockey, baseball and etc were really popular back then. Olympic medalist were really popular back then, if you were a Olympic gold medal winner you were really famous. baseball was the national past time in the 1920's -
Residential Schools
Residential Schools were created back in the 1870's and continued all the way up until the 1990's. Children between the age of 4-16 would be put into these residential school. Most of these kids were aboriginal people. Residential schools were made to change everyone to Euro-Canadians. Residential schools were like a jail for young kids because they would get abused and workers for the residential schools would people tried to ruin their religions. -
Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu was a very deadly virus. The Spanish Flu was responsible for the first benign wave of the Spanish Influenza in 1918. The Spanish Flu was started from people getting sick in Spain and transferring it over to Canada. Over 500 million people worldwide has died from the Spanish Flu, around 50 million people died from the Spanish Flu in 1918. Many soldiers got the deadly virus after war or during the war. -
Jazz Age
The jazz age was a period in the 1920's and 1930's in which jazz music and dance started to grow in popularity. The jazz age started in 1918 and went popular in the united states first. The jazz age is important because it started the music and dance trend and made life more fun and enjoyable. Jazz music was created when Buddy Bolden started his own music band. Their first song was called "Livery Stable Blues". it started to get popular in 1917 and it started the jazz music trend. -
Bloody Saturdays
On June 21st 1919, when the Winnipeg General Strike was close to finishing, a brawl started to happen and the mayor called the police. police then came with guns and started to lock down places and shoot people. 2 men were killed and 27 people injured, 4 of the 27 people were women. The strike went on for 37 days and June 21st being the final day. On May 15th Over 30,000 people came out onto the streets to go on strike. -
Winnipeg General Strike
The Winnipeg general strike was one of the most influential strikes in history. Many people became unemployed and went into poverty. Negotiations broke down between labour and management. withing hours over 30,000 people came out to go on strike. It got to dangerous and chaotic that the mayor had to call the police to come handle it. Police came with guns and kill 2 men and injured 27 people, 4 of them were women. -
Radio
A Radio is a small wooden box that can broadcast songs, news and etc. In the 1920's radios were used as an entertainment purpose. For example, if a farmer turns the dial he could end up listening to jazz music or maybe a hockey game in Montreal. A radio is common in the 1920's because they didn't cost to much. Radios cost around 70 dollars. Radios were made in the 1890's but went popular in the 1920's to the 1930's. Guglielmo Marconi was the creator of the first broadcasting radio. -
The Group Of seven
The group of seven is a group of seven artist who formed together to create a group. The seven Canadian painters names are Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald and Frederick Varley. The group of seven went to school together. They use ranges of colors and make landscape art. They starting doing art so people will get inspired to do art, also so other people can enjoy their work and learn from it. -
Xenophobia
Xenophobia was nativism and fundamentalism in the 1920's. In the 1920's there was a backlash against immigrants and modernism led to the original culture wars. Xenophobia is the condition of being scared of foreigners. most of the people in the 1920 were scared or afraid of foreigners and immigrants because they think they were gonna try to hurt them or take their land. -
Insulin
Insulin is a medicine used to help with diabetes. It was first used on January 11th 1921. Insulin was discovered by Sir Frederick G Banting, Charles H Best and JJR McLeod at University of Toronto. On July 30, 1921, they decided to inject insulin in a diabetic dog and see the results. they later found out that it actually worked on cured it. To this day insulin is still being used. -
Persons case
Back in 1928 women were not considered people, so that means women did not have the rights that men had in the 1920's to the 1930's. The persons case was a famous constitutional case that decided that women were eligible to sit in the senate of Canada. There were 5 women who won this case, they were Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, and Irene Parlbya. The five woman were all from Alberta. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was when the stock market crashed. Stocks lost more then $26 billion in value and over 30 million shares traded. After the week of the crash, it started to drop like crazy losing over $30 billion in stock value by November 1929. Everyone started to sell Their stocks since they had no option but to sell them. The Dow Jones industry average dropped -12%. Black Tuesday is often blamed as the start of the great depression. -
Relief
Relief also known as the Three R's (relief, recovery and reform) was introduced by President Franklin .D Roosevelt during the great depression. Franklin .D Roosevelt made the three R's because he thought it could bring economic stability to the nation. Relief programs were there to help people who are facing really bad depression and hoping to bring them back to a stable economic. -
Bennett Buggy
In the 1930's many people started to go into poverty and end up unemployed. Most of these people tried to blame it on Prime Minister Richard Bennett because they thought he was causing everyone to go into poverty, but it wasn't Richard Bennett's Fault, it was the great depression from the aftermath of the war. Most people couldn't afford a vehicle so they would take out the interior of a car and use a horse instead. -
Five Cent Speach
The five cent speech was made by Mackenzie King. The five cent speech was a speech about Mackenzie king not helping non liberal provinces. Mackenzie King said he wouldn't give any other province that are non liberal 5 cents since they are not liberals. Kings whole purpose of this speech was to try to change everyone to liberals King gave this speech on April 3rd 1930.
