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Assembly Line
It was part of the process of producing the products by adding the little materials into the products. Assembly lines are designed for a sequential organization of workers, tools or machines, and parts. In that process can increase the speed of producing the products. That helped the factories save more time to produce more products. The workers can focus on their own part of the work and keep repeating it and this method can save more times of producing products. -
Prohibition
A prohibition of alcohol was a process of stopping the production, transportation, import, export, sale and consumption of alcohol that begun in the 19th century. The prohibition stopped all the alcohol sources to try to stop the illness that the Europeans had of the alcohol. There had many different organizations joined this prohibition and supported it. There had many alcohols were destructed and that affected the economy of the world at that time. -
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Canadian history 1920s to 1930s
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Spanish Flu
1918 flu pandemic (Spanish Flu) it was an unusually flu that spread across the world and can cause people to death .I t lasted from June 1917 to December 1920. It named Spanish flu because at that time, there have 8,000,000 Spanish people got this flu. This flu affects the whole world, there had over 10billions people got this flu. -
Winnipeg General Strike
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 May was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labor reforms. After World War 2, many Canadian companies got lots of profits, but they didn’t change the working condition and the wages of the workers. That made the workers felt strongly disagree of what they did, so they started the strike to try to get their own benefits. -
Branch Plants
Branch Plant is a system introduced by Americans, it involves American manufacturing and commercial firms that were located in Canada to avoid the import tariffs .Profits made by Canadian branch plants were usually attained by the U.S. Some Canadians felt that American capital from this system would develop Canadian industries, and transform Canada into a greater economic power. Others also feared the economic takeover of Canada by the U.S. -
Group of Seven
It was a group of seven landscape painters that organized in 1920s. The members were Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. The group was the most famous and succeeded in Canadian’s history and they were strongly influenced by European Impressionism of the 19th century in the Montmartre district of Paris. -
Prime Minister: Mackenzie King
Mackenzie King was Prime Minister of Canada for 22 years. He was the longest-serving Prime Minister in British Commonwealth history. He was trained in law and social work; he was also interested in human condition. “I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.” The tenet that he had during the time, it was helping the people that can’t help themselves. -
Person's case
The Persons Case is a legal history milestone in Canada. Women were not persons under the law before this law established. Five women from Alberta asked the Supreme Court of Canada and the British Privy Council to declare that women were persons under the law. It found for the women on October 18, 1929, declaring that women were persons under the law. This law helped all the women in Canada got their own rights.Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women. -
Black Tuesday
This was the date of the most famous stock market crash in history. That affected the whole world’s economy. Many people lost lots of money from it and some people decided to kill themselves just because of they lost their houses and their money. The first day that started the Great Depression. The Great Depression lasted for 12 years and that was a big damage for the world’s economy.Quote said by Irene Peter, “Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages." -
Five Cent Speech
William Lyon Mackenzie King, made a speech called the “Five- Cent Speech” during the beginning of the Great Depression to tell people that he won’t give a nickel of someone who lost their jobs and people who are asking for relief payments. This was the cause why Liberals lost the elections and the Conservatives in that time. Mackenzie King became unpopular and the citizens were disagreeing with him. It just because that effects that Black Tuesday caused was too big. -
Prime Minister: R.B. Bennett
Richard Bedford Bennett was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician and philanthropist. He was born on July 3rd, 1870-June 26, 1947. He served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada for 5 years and he served during the worst of the Great Depression years. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1911 and became Conservative leader in 1927. After winning the federal election of 1930, Bennett tried to fight the depression by expanding trade within the British Empire. -
Statute of Westminster
This was the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The reason of why this happened because the provinces & federal government couldn't agree on making changes to the B.N.A. Act & freedom would be given to the countries under the British Ruling; able to do things that they wanted to do, weren't forced to do anything. -
New Deal
R.B.Bennett, the Prime Minister came up with the Canadian Version of the New Deal. The New Deal promised workers with maximum hours of work, a minimum wage, better working conditions and many more. The new deal was included more progressive taxation system, a maximum work week, a minimum wage, closer ruling of working conditions, unemployment insurance, health and accident insurance, revised old-age allowance, and agricultural support programs.This new deal gave more benefits to the workers. -
On to Ottawa Trek
The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a long journey where thousands of people had unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada. The men lived and worked in these camps at a rate of twenty cents per day before walking out on strike in April 1935. They can’t bear the tickets of riding the trains, so they climbed on the train to go across Canada to find their job. Many men died because of they fell in sleep and went under the train. -
SS. St. Louis
SS St. Louis was a ship that set sail from Hamburg to Havana. On board were 937 Jewish refugees escape persecution from Nazi Germany. It was one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before Europe was engulfed in war. Each passenger carried a valid visa for temporary entry into Cuba, but the Cuban government sent them back to Europe.The Belgian King and Prime Minister agreed only 200 passengers could land in Belgium. French and Dutch governments agreed to help them until they found their home.
