Social Justice

Question 1

How did laws change in the 1920s for women, children, and seniors?

Answer 1

• Women: Women could vote and have jobs
• Children: Child labour became less accepted
• Seniors: Canada passed the Old Age Pensions Act of 1927

Question 2

What is the Person’s Case?

Answer 2

The Person’s case was a case based on whether women are considered “persons” or not and whether they should be able to run run for government.
Who-Famous 5, including Emily Murphy
When-1929
Where-Alberta

Question 3

What was the temperance movement? Did it succeed?

Answer 3

The temperance movement was a movement against the consumption of alcohol. It was short lived and did not succeed.
Who-WCTU (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union), DATSLT (Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic)
When-Late 19th and early 20th century

Question 4

In what ways did young people have more freedom in the 1920s?

Answer 4

The country was prospering and it was easy for teens to find jobs and they made good wages. They did not have to attend secondary school since a high school diploma wasn’t needed to find a well paying job. Teens could go out and live on their own if they wanted to.

Question 5

What was the On-to-Ottawa Trek? What did this group want? Were they successful?

Answer 5

What- A long journey where thousands of unemployed men went on strike to protest the conditions of federal relief camps. The men lived and worked in these camps for 20 cents a day.
Where-Western Canada

Question 6

Why did the economy fail in 1929? What caused it?

Answer 6

• 1929 crash of the wall street stock market
• drops in world commodity prices
• decline in economic demand

Question 7

What did prairie farmers suffer through during the 1920s and 1930s?

Answer 7

-The collapse of wheat prices after World War One had serious consequences for Prairie farmers. Many farmers who had purchased implements and more land at high prices during the war lost their farms. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s farmers on poorer soils consistently lost money.

Question 8

What does the term “dust bowl” mean?

Answer 8

-An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.

Question 9

Name one country that fell under fascist control in the 1930s.

Answer 9

-Ethiopia

Question 10

How effective was the League of Nations in preventing violence in the 1930s? Give one example.

Answer 10

• Not very effective
• The Manchurian Crisis: September 1931 Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria. Japan wanted control of the area in order to gain control of the Russian territory of Mongolia. China appealed to the League of Nations for help. The League asked for Japan’s withdrawal from the area, but Japan refused.

Question 11

In what ways did the government try to help Canadians through the depression? Were they successful?

Answer 11

• Rations were given out which included flour, pork, split peas, corn meal, molasses, and cocoa. These rations only provided about half of a person’s nutritional needs.
• Commission of government distributed free milk and cod liver oil to children and raised the health department’s budget.

Question 12

What is “assimilation”? Explain how aboriginal children were “assimilated” by the government.

Answer 12

• The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group
• Aboriginal children were assimilated by the government because they were put into residential schools and taught to be like every other Canadian.