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Chinese Head Tax
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The Chinese Head Tax was an Act that made Chinese immigrants pay to enter Canada. The tax was $50, about 2 salaries worth in China. Eventually, the tax was removed and Chinese immigration was banned altogether. -
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Internment camps
-1/ With the War Measures Act, east European immigrants were forced into camps where they would do manual labour for a few cents a day and treated under harsh conditions. Many people died in the camps for "unknown reasons." -
Lt. Col. Borden sends letter to all students in Nova Scotia
0/ As the title says, Borden sent a letter to students in Nova Scotia. The letter was used to make kids try to persuade their fathers and brothers to join the army. -
Women's rights
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During this time, the War-time Elections Act allowed many women to vote in federal and provincial elections. This was the first movement for equal rights. By 1960, every citizen were allowed to vote and women were able to do things that people in the 1800s would never imagine. -
Many soldiers become jobless
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Many jobs opened up after men left to fight the war and were taken by citizens in a flash. After the war, soldiers that used to have jobs now don't have those jobs and have to take very low paying jobs. This is still a problem today with veteran homelessness. -
Major economy spike
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With Europe being very damaged by the war, that left Canada and USA as the only countries to produce items for the world. This allowed lots of construction, boosting these countries' status of superpowers. -
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Appliances
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Electronics which could do work meant for women were being made. -
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Flappers
0* During the 20's, women decided to do unthinkable things for the time and changed the way women acted forever. The flappers still live on today as traditions that many young women follow today. -
Insulin
+2* Frederick Bantings discovered insulin with his colleague and changed lives across the world. Without this, many diabetic people would not live with as much comfort as they do. -
The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
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The stock market crash in America caused the biggest economic depression of the 20th century. Market prices greatly dropped, many people were unemployed and a rise of poverty and homelessness was happening. This went on until the late 1930s