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What were the main demands of Canadian workers after World War One?

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higher wages, better working conditions, union rights

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What was the political outcome of the King-Byng Affair?

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It led to a change in the role of the Governor General.

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What made the Great Depression especially challenging for Canadians living on the Prairies?

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widespread drought that destroyed crops

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Which politician is associated with the quotation above?

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Mackenzie King

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Cape Breton strikes

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labour wars of the early 1920s represented an intense local episode of class conflict

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Socialism

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social and economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy

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Communism

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a social and economic theory
that property, production, and distribution
of goods and services should be owned by
the public, and the labour force organized
for the benefit of all

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One Big Union

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At the Western Labour
Conference in March 1919, union leaders from Western Canada founded . It represent all Canadian
workers

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Winnipeg General Strike

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Massive strike workers had in winnipeg in 1919

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Collective bargaining

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negotiation of a
contract between unions and management
regarding such things as wages
and working conditions

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J.S. Woodsworth

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chosen as party leader. The party platform,
known as the Regina Manifesto, opposed free-market economics and supported
public ownership of key industries

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Regionalism

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a concern for the affairs of
one’s own region over those of one’s
country

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Progressive Party

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s election platform was based on their proposed

National Policy, calling for free trade and to nationalize the railways

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

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chosen to lead the Liberals in

1919

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Arthur Meighan

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Canadian lawyer and politician. He served two terms as the ninth Prime Minister of Canada: from 10 July 1920 to 29 December 1921; and from 29 June 1926 to 25 September 192

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Minority government

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a government in
which the ruling party has less than half
the total number of seats in the legislature

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Old Age Pension Act

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an Act passed in
1927 to provide social assistance to
people over 70

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Chanak Crisis

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a war scare in September 1922 between Britain and Republic of Turkey.

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Halibut Treaty

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a 1923 Canadian–American agreement concerning fishing rights in the northern Pacific Ocean

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King-Byng Crisis

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a situation that occurred
in 1926 when Governor General Byng
refused Prime Minister King’s request to
dissolve Parliament and call an election

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Imperial Conference o

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1926 that Canada made the greatest
progress toward changing its legal dependence on Britain. a meeting of the
leaders of the countries in the British
Empire

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Balfour Report

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the conclusions of the
1926 Imperial Conference that acknowledged
that Canada was an autonomous
community within the British Empire

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Autonomy

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y the power to govern oneself

and make one’s own decisions

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Statute of Westminster

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the law that
changed the British Empire into the British
Commonwealth; all commonwealth
countries to be considered equal in status
with Britain and able to make their own
laws

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British Commonwealth
association of nations that were formerly colonies of the British Empire
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Branch plants
Factories or operations set up in Canada but owned or controlled by U.S. or other foreign companies
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Primary industries
an industry that deals with the extraction or collection of raw materials, such as mining or forestry
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Secondary industries
an industry that deals | with manufacturing or construction
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Prohibition
the ban of alcohol
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Plebiscite
a direct vote by electors on an issue of public importance; the outcome of the vote may not be binding on the government
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Urbanization
the process by which an | area changes from rural to urban
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Agnes Macphail
First woman elected to parliment
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Person's Case
Women being considered as equal to men
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Emily Murphy
part of the famous five who worked the :persons case"
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Famous Five"
five Alberta women who | fought for the political status of women
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Happy Days Are Here Again
A song
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Henry Ford
The inventer of the Ford Car brand
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Model T ford
popular automobile was the Model T Ford. By the late 1920s, 50 percent of Canadian homes had
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Bush pilots
flew geologists and prospectors into remote areas to explore mining opportunities.
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Frederick Banting
a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter and Nobel laureate noted as the first person that used insulin on human
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Group of Seven
group of Canadian | landscape painters in the 1920s
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Emily Carr
a unique Canadian artist and writer. | Born in 1871 in Victoria, B.C.
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Potlatch Challenge
an important cultural ceremony among certain peoples of the Pacific Coast. At this ceremony, births, deaths, marriages, and other significant events were recorded in the oral tradition
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Aboriginal title
claims by Aboriginal peoples | to lands that their ancestors inhabited
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cut-off lands"
s lands taken from reserves | without consent of the Aboriginal peoples
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Ku Klux Klan
n, founded in the southern United States, promoted fanatical racial and religious hatred against non-Protestants and non-white
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Chinese Exclusion Act
an Act that tried to halt Chinese | immigration altogether.
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Stock Market Crash 1929
1929 The stock market crash that kick started the depression
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buying on margin
borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock
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Depression
a severe economic downturn | in the global economy in the 1930s
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Causes of the Great Depression
triggered by the 1929 stock market crash although caused by Debt from ww1 being too close to USA and over production (suply and demand)
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Overproduction
more goods being produced than being sold; leads to a decrease in production, which leads to increased unemployment
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Suply and demand
Demand refers to how much (quantity) of a product or service is desired by buyers. Suply is how much you make
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Tariffs
taxes on imported goods
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Protectionism
m a system of using tariffs to raise the price of imported goods in order to protect domestic producers
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Depression's impact on Canada
Stuff
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riding the rods
an unemployed person who moves from place to place in search of work
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pogey
relief payments by a government, sometimes in the form of vouchers for food and other essentials
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Prairie drought
A severe drought in Alberta that caused dust storms
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Anti-Semitism
discrimination or hostility | toward Jewish people
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Mackenzie King's "five-cent speech"
not providing unemployment relief to the provinces from the Canadian federal government, saying it was not an obligation under the British North America Act. He felt the provinces were responsible for their own welfare.
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R.B. Bennett
PM in 1930 had little vision to help in the great depression
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Bennett blanket
A newspaper. People began to name things after benntt as they were taking their anger out
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Communist Party of Canada
An enemy party that Bennett was afraid people would join in the 1930's. Bennett made a law to outlaw these people
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Tim Buck
the leader of the communist party of Canada
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Work camps
r single men in an attempt to provide relief from the Depression. Men worked on projects such as building roads, clearing land, and digging drainage ditches. They were paid $0.20 a day and given room and board.
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On-to-Ottawa Trek
a 1935 rail trip from Vancouver to Ottawa (stopped at Regina) by unemployed men to protest conditions at employment relief camps
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Regina Riot
a riot that occurred when police attempted to clear On-to-Ottawa trekkers from a stadium in Regina
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Laissez-faire economics
an economic condition in which industry is free of government intervention
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Government intervention
Governments interveining in the countries problems
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Relief payments
payments to help stuggleing people
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The New Deal
``` a series of programs, such as social assistance for the aged and unemployed, introduced by U.S. president Roosevelt in the 1930s to deal with the Depression ```
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Protest parties
A political party in 1930. was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces and, in Manitoba, ran candidates and formed governments as the Progressive Party of Manitoba
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Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Canada’s first socialist party founded in the Prairies in 1932; advocated government control of the economy
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J.S. Woodsworth
was chosen as party leader. The party platform, | known as the Regina Manifesto in the CCF
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Regina Manifesto
``` platform of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party; it supported public ownership of industry and social programs to assist those in need ```
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Social Credit Party
political party founded | in Western Canada; opposed to capitalism
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William Aberhart
Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943 came to power based on the popularity of his theory of social credit.
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Maurice Duplessis
, a former Conservative, joined forces with | some disillusioned Liberals to form the Union nationale
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Union Nationale
a party that | supported Québec nationalism
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Rowell-Sirois Commission
``` report of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, a commission set up in 1937 to examine the Canadian economy and federal-provincial relations ```
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Equalization payments
a federal transfer | of funds from richer to poorer provinces
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CBC
the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) in 1932, Created by Bennett
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Dionne quintuplets
are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. Born May 28 1934
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Totalitarianism
is a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible.
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Fascism
governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism
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Kristallnacht
a coordinated attack against Jewish people and their property carried out by Nazis in Germany on November 9, 1938
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Appeasement
giving in to an aggressor’s demands in the hopes that no more demands will be made
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German invasion of Poland
Once Germans did this, then two days later then britian joined and we joined soon after
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Isolationism
the policy of remaining apart | from the affairs of other countries
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S.S. St. Louis
A ship of Jewish refugues that no one wanted to harbor.. Canada refused to let them in and many of them died soon once they returned to europe.

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