Midterm Review: 1920's

Question 1

Winnipeg General Strike

Answer 1

Caused by bad working conditions due to bad economy resulted of World War I.

Question 2

Agnes Macphail

Answer 2

1 out of 5 women who ran for office (federal election) in 1921

Question 3

Prohibition

Answer 3

banned manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in Canada

Question 4

Chanak Crisis

Answer 4

Turkish violated treaty of Versailles; possibility of war; Canada wasn’t automatically at war

Question 5

Halibut Treaty

Answer 5

Canadian-American fishing in North Pacific ocean; didn’t involve British

Question 6

Imperial Conference of 1926

Answer 6

dominions of British Empire required freedom to govern themselves (autonomy)

Question 7

Balfour Report

Answer 7

Lord Balfour (British Politician) supports dominions’ position;

Question 8

King/Byng Crisis

Answer 8

Liberal needed Progressive Party’s support; PP smuggling (scandal) -> Byng refuse another election. King won; nobody act against PM!

Question 9

Old Age Pension Act

Answer 9

$20/month 70+ (20years Canadian Citizen)

Question 10

Persons’ Case

Answer 10

Emily Murphy- suffragist challenged supreme court of Canada for women to be seen as “persons”

Question 11

Emily Murphy

Answer 11

Leader of Famous Five

Question 12

Carine Wilson

Answer 12

Canada’s first female senator

Question 13

Famous Five

Answer 13

Emily Murphy
Irene Parlby
Nellie McClung
Louise McKinney
Henrietta Muir Edwards

Question 14

Socialism

Answer 14

co-operate; everyone does his fair share of the work and gets his fair share of the provisions

Question 15

Communism

Answer 15

No single person of small grouped of people who rule the others

Question 16

One Big Union (OBU)

Answer 16

Represented all Canadian workers

Question 17

Collective bargaining

Answer 17

Allow union leadership to negotiate with employers on behalf of Union members

Question 18

J.S. Woodsworth

Answer 18

Social reformer; founder of Cooperative Commonwealth Federation aka New Democratic Party

Question 19

Regionalism

Answer 19

Form an economic community with each other, often to break down trade barriers, promoting free trade between them.

Question 20

Progressive Party

Answer 20

Farmers in western Canada at the time was free trade with the United States

Question 21

Minority government

Answer 21

Formed when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament

Question 22

Arthur Meighen

Answer 22

debater; Parliament member -> replace Borden as leader of conservatives: Belief- Principles over compromise & IDGAF

Question 23

W.L.M King

Answer 23

PM; Liberals 1919 -> Social and economic issues (conciliatory; seeks path that offends least ppl)

Question 24

Statute of Westminster 1931

Answer 24

British Parliament which changed the Empire to a Commonwealth where the Dominions were equal to Britain

Question 25

British Commonwealth

Answer 25

Group of allied nations who share cultural exchanges, economic partnerships and other mutually beneficial treaties (Good buddies :)

Question 26

Branch plant

Answer 26

Businesses owned and controlled by companies in US/ operated in Canada

Question 27

Stock Market Crash

Answer 27

1929; caused great depression

Question 28

Autonomy

Answer 28

Freedom to govern themselves

Question 29

Emily Carr

Answer 29

Group of Sevens; Canadian painter

Question 30

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 30

Banned Chinese from entering Canada

Question 31

Potlach challenge

Answer 31

Indian Act Aboriginals pursued land claims-> jailed

Question 32

Economic trends during the '20's

Answer 32

Automobile, city center, radios, etc

Question 33

Business cycle

Answer 33

Prosperity :) -> Recession :( -> Depression D: -> Recovery :|

Question 34

Tariffs

Answer 34

Tax placed on imported goods

Question 35

Recession

Answer 35

rates are changing/ fluctuating for the worst

Question 36

Recovery

Answer 36

rates are changing/ fluctuating for the better

Question 37

Prosperity

Answer 37

all rates are stabled at high points (high employment & profit)

Question 38

Deficit

Answer 38

shortage

Question 39

Inflation

Answer 39

rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy

Question 40

Supply and demand

Answer 40

economic model of price determination in a market

Question 41

Isolationism

Answer 41

Raise tariffs (People buy things from Canada and not US)

Question 42

Collective Security

Answer 42

Security arrangement, regional global; cooperate collectively to provide security for all by the actions of all against any states

Question 43

Overproduction

Answer 43

Farmers produce more goods than needed; selling for less (war demands)

Question 44

Buying on margin

Answer 44

borrow money to invest

Question 45

Plebiscite

Answer 45

votes on a public issue;adopted government-controlled liquor outlets

Question 46

Urbanization

Answer 46

Growing manufacturing sector; city dwellers -> Modern day city (POLLUTION!)

Question 47

Aboriginal Title

Answer 47

land claims

Question 48

Cut off lands

Answer 48

federal government take land from reserves without consent of the Aboriginal bands

Question 49

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 49

The KKK illegal and desperate measures keep the purity of the Anglo-Sayon race; I H8 BLAQ PPL

Question 50

Cape Breton Strikes

Answer 50

Coal strike

Question 51

Primary industry

Answer 51

mining and lumber

Question 52

Secondary industry

Answer 52

Manufacturing and construction industries

Question 53

Judicial Committee of Privy Council

Answer 53

Final appeal court

Question 54

Henry Ford and the Model T

Answer 54

Assembly line every 3 minutes; all identical and cost less than $300