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The Model T and the assembly line
The Model T was the first model of car ever made in the assembly line, and would soon be a craze in the golden age. The assembly line allowed people to make more cars faster and better, lowering the cost of cars and increasing sale. People didn't often know how to use the cars, but after a while the economy were driving cars as a common transportation vehicle, much like today. This also shows the development of technology throughout the 20s. -
Prohibition
Prohibition was the act where every form of alcohol was banned from Canada. This rule was raised by the Temperance Group and the 18th Amendment. The main goal was to lower crime, lower alcohol sales for money, as well as the amount of drinking entirely. However, Gang activity blossomed and illegal distribution around places called "speakeasys" occurred. -
The Spanish flu
The Spanish flu was a large pandemic was believed to originate from Spain, but was actually passed from France to Spain. It spread through American Military camps and traveled to Ontario by trans continental airway. The Government however shut down schools and non essential services. The Spanish flu infected 500,000 thousands and had a mortality rate of 100,000. This is important to note because it shows we have had a pandemic before. -
The Radio
The Broadcasting Radio was a new form of technology in the 1920's, and was situated in almost 70% of most Canadian homes at the time. These radios were so important as they were radios that could broadcast from different places to your own home. This made it easier to get news/ events from different parts of the world. -
Residential Schools
Residential schools were made to group Indigenous people and meld them into the Canadian European culture at that time. This resulted in taking the children of Indigenous families and bring them into the Schools, where they stripped the Indigenous people of there cultural clothing and beliefs. They also tried to change the religion of Indigenous children into Catholic/Christian faith, and would often abuse or torture the children. The children would have died from abuse or died trying to go home -
Golden age of sports
Many sports were also large forms of entertainment, such as baseball and soccer. The rise to sports also rose stars, such as the popular baseball player Babe Ruth. -
Flappers
Flappers were younger woman who wore short skirts and had bobbed hair. They also participated in activities that were considered un lady like, such as drinking and smoking. Flappers also listened to Jazz and attended parties most notably in speakeasys. This is important to note because of the change in fashion and change of lifestyle in the 1920's -
Xenophobia
Many people in the 1920s and before didn't like the immigrants moving to Canada, as they thought of them as aliens or enemy forces. This caused hate to brew and often left people with a different ethnicity harder to find jobs, as well as constant hate groups attacking them (the kkk). This is important to note because xenophobia still happens today -
The group of seven
The group of seven were popular painters in the 1920s that included Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H Macdonald, and Fredrick Varley. These canadian artist often did landscape drawings of canadas wilderness. -
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Talkies
Talkies were a form of entertainment back in the 1930's, which consisted of black and white film being displayed on a large screen in theatres. Many talkies later on had sounds incorporated into them, such as a piano. These things shed some light on the dark times of the 1930s and introduced rising stars such as Charlie chaplain or Laurel and Hardy later on in talkie history. This brought fame to Hollywood and was a major entertainment in the 1930s -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the event of a huge economic downfall in history. A huge amount of people lost there jobs, and were forced into poverty and had barely any money to get by. People sold everything they owned, including houses, and even cars, for money for food. This is important to know because of the struggles went through. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the given name to the event in history where the stock market dipped down to a huge low then eventually crashed. People tried to sell there stocks for money, but ultimately lowered the stocks even faster. This resulted in millions of Canadian Citizens losing huge amounts of money and almost everything, and was a symptom of the great depression. -
Relief
Relief was a financial system that was used as emergency support for the unemployed people, mainly to help them from avoiding starvation. However, a lot of people found relief embarrassing to have. The Government also gave only 42 cents per week, as the government was still struggling. -
The Bennet Buggy
The Bennet buggy was a popular form of transportation in the great depression, consisting of the frame of a car often missing windows and engines being pulled by a horse. This was because of the price of gas and the efficiency of the horse when the depression hit, as they weren't as expensive and were pretty popular transportation . -
causes of the great depression
The six causes of the great depression would include: over production and over expansion of certain products, The way Canada depended on there few primary resources at the time such as fish. Canadas dependence on the USA was also one, and the high tariffs killed the international trade. In Canada there was also too much amounts of credit payments and too much credit buying of the stock. -
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