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30 Cards in this Set
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Prohibition |
Laws from 1916-23 in Canada and 1919-33 in the US that prohibited any kind of alcohol consumption/sale |
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Speakeasie |
Upper class bars where illegal alcohol was sold. |
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Blind Pigs |
lower class bars where alcohol was sold. Mostly sold bathtub gin rather than Canadian alcohol. |
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Flappers |
iconic rebellious women of the 1930s. Famous for the shapeless dresses they wore and how they acted (ie attending jazz performances, drinking, smoking, and dancing the Charleston)
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Rum Runner |
man or woman who smuggles illegal alcohol into the US. Rum runners usually ran between the US and Canada, however there were examples of rum running on the Mexican border. |
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Bootleggers |
Person who produces or sells illegal alcohol. Some famous examples of bootleggers are Al Capone, or his Canadian counterpart, Rocco Perri, who both ran criminal empires in Chicago and Hamilton respectively. |
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Black Tuesday |
Infamous day on October 29, 1929, when America’s Wall Street stock market crashed. Investors the world over began selling stocks, significantly decreasing value of international currency. This day marked the beginning of the great depression and the lowering of the standard of lives for many Canadians and Americans alike.
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Acctor |
Causes of the great depression. America, Buying stocks on credit, credit, tariffs, overproduction/overexpansion, resources |
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Business Cycle |
Prosperity > Recession > Depression > Recovery |
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20s Boom |
-caused by the multiple innovations and inventions that were made at the at the end of the great war. -The business cycle cycled up, causing a time of great prosperity where everyone was able to get the latest and greatest inventions. -because of WW1, the industries established began producing alternative wares, namely the inventions introduced earlier in the century. -stocks were bought en masse as people began to realize the potential on Wall Street and other trading hubs.
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Riding the Rods |
Men began hopping on trains they could not afford. An example of this is the On To Ottawa Trek. |
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Relief Camps |
Set up by the government to employ young men in need of work. Involved heavy labour. |
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Drought |
lack of rain over a long period of time. During the depression, multiple droughts occurred in the midwest, causing starvation and a huge loss of money for farmers.
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Locust |
Bug that devastated crops |
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Dustbowl |
Consequently due to the loss of moisture in the soil and any anchoring plants on the surface, winds began to blow the dry topsoil away, resulting in massive dust storms that have been said to make the Canadian West like the Sahara desert.
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CCF |
The CCF stands for the Co-operative CommonWealth Federation. Formed in 1932, it is the ascendant of today’s NDP party. Wanted to introduce socialism to the Canadian society and it’s forward thinking has been the basis of many programs run by today’s government.
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Union Nationale |
Party in Quebec that favoured the preservation of French Culture in Quebec. Its leader was Maurice Duplessis, who lead Quebec into a “dark” age. He died in 1959. |
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On-to-Ottawa treck |
Dissatisfied with pay and workcamp conditions, many young labourers began moving towards Ottawa over the trains, from BC Eastward. These rebels gained steam as they moved towards the prairies, with more men joining as the trains went along.
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Regina Riot |
Bennett did not want the protesters to make it to Ottawa, so he gave orders to the RCMP to stop the trek in Regina. The result was a massive riot in Regina, in which one police officer was killed and a few wounded. |
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The assembly line |
After the great war, many advances had been made in the workplace. Factories began using conveyor belts to help the production along. Henry Ford was one of the first to use these systems successfully, with his production of the Model T Ford, or the Tin Lizzie. Assembly lines required relatively unskilled workers who were paid less than specialists, therefore making assembly lines both faster and cheaper. |
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Combine |
The combine is a piece of machinery that automatically separates the chaff and stocks of the wheat plant from the grains, making the amount of work necessary on farms far less. The combine increased efficiency on farms and also made the process much cheaper, as farmers no longer needed to hire many labourers to work the fields. |
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Radio (Ted Rogers) |
Although radio had been around as early as the turn of the century, many were battery operated with a huge (and very heavy) battery and were extremely annoying to operate. Ted Rogers changed this with a revolutionary innovation; the plug in radio. This radio type dispelled previous battery types and made radios much more durable and less expensive (in the long run).
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Stock |
A small piece of a company that can go up or down in value, usually depending on external events. |
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Shares |
Much like stocks; a small portion of a larger company. |
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Brokers |
People make a living of buying and then selling stocks, usually dependant on the stock prices and the business cycle. |
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R.B. Bennett |
Prime Minister of Canada from 1930-1935. He was blamed for the depression, despite doing his best to fix the problem (ie workcamps tariff increases and similar policies). |
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Branch Plants |
Factories that are built in other countries in order to avoid trade tariffs. Branch-plants had a variety of both good and bad effects on the local economy. While they provide jobs, they also compete with local businesses for sales, sometimes entirely driving out well-loved chains. (An example of this is Target’s take over of Zellers). |
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Mary Pickford |
Famous female actor, screenplay writer, and director. She was known as “America’s Sweetheart,” despite her being born in Canada. |
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Shirley Temple |
One of the world’s first child film stars with a leading role in a movie, Shirley temple thrived on the big screen, specifically after the introduction of talkies. |
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Babe Ruth |
Coming from an abusive home, Ruth was dumped at an industrial school where he learned to love the sport of baseball. He has been one of the most legendary players to this day and was considered the first real “superstar” sports players. |
