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Title: The Roaring Twenties


1
The Roaring Twenties
2
1920s
  • Decade of prosperity, fun and wild living
  • Era of the Jazz Age
  • New music
  • Fashion
  • Fads
  • Not ___________for everyone

3
Adjustment Period
  • Most soldiers returned home 1919
  • No steady ________ for veterans
  • No special _________ services
  • Few ________
  • Employers got rich, but veterans did not receive
    any
  • Wages did not cover the cost of _____

4
Workers Unrest
  • Strikes workers demand _________, better
    ____________________, ____________
  • _______ union leaders were more socialist than
    East coast
  • Socialist political and economic system where
    _________ and distribution are ________ owned for
    the benefit of all members in society, people
    should have more involvement in the government

5
Workers (cont.)
  • Western union leaders influence by 1917
    revolution in Russia, Bolsheviks set up a
    ____________ regime
  • Communism means of production and distribution
    were _________ owned, no private or individual
    ownership

6
Workers Unrest (cont.)
  • Western Labour Conference in March 1919 created
    One Big Union
  • One Big Union represent all Canadian __________
    in one organization
  • Help workers establish more control of industry
    government through ____________ means

7
Winnipeg General Strike
  • May 1919 Winnipegs metal and building workers
    walked off their jobs
  • Demanded higher wages, shorter work week, right
    to ___________________ (negotiations between
    workers and management)
  • Winnipeg was at a standstill no firefighters,
    postal workers, telephone or telegraph services,
    newspapers, streetcars, bread/milk deliveries

8
The Winnipeg General Strike (cont.)
  • Business leaders, politicians industrialists
    formed ___________________________________________
    ___________________
  • Committee believed that union leaders were trying
    to overthrow the government
  • Government amended the _____________________ to
    allow foreign born union leaders to be deported
  • Special police, fired civic workers, strike
    leaders arrested

9
Bloody Saturday
  • June 21, 1919 union held parade to protest
  • The mayor read the ____________
  • a law declaring a grouping of more than 12 people
    to be unlawfully assembled
  • The protest turned violent Royal North West
    Mounted Police and special police charged crowd

10
Strike Aftermath
  • Seven arrested leaders were convicted of
    _______________
  • Striking workers not rehired
  • Divisions between ___________ and business class
    grew

11
Federalism
  • Regionalism concern of various different
    ___________ of the country with their own
    _________ problems
  • Maritimes population is a small region therefore
    they had ________ seats in parliament
  • Oil replaced coal, yet Maritimes had coal
  • Formed _____________________________

12
Federalism/Regionalism (cont.)
  • There were also regional challenges from Prairies
    and Ontario
  • Farmers angered by _____________ because
    tariffs/duties placed on foreign goods imported
    into Canada
  • Farmers wanted __________________, abolish
    tariffs and allow them to buy cheap machinery
  • 1919 federal Thomas Crerar created the
    ________________________________________
  • Wanted a new National Party based on
    _____________ and ownership of railways

13
1921 Election
  • MacKenzie King leader of __________ party
  • Believed in the middle path
  • Arthur Meighen leader of the _________________
  • Believed in principles over compromise didnt
    care if he offended anyone
  • Liberals elected 117 seats Conservatives 55
    seats Progressives 64 seats

14
1921 Election
  • Liberals were a minority government
  • Progressive Party did not last very long
  • 1926 King challenged by the Progressives to set
    up _______________________
  • Act was passed in 1927 240/yr

15
New Independence
  • 1922 King refused to support Britain when they
    were invading ________________
  • 1923 King insisted Canada be allowed to sign an
    international treaty known as the
    __________________________ without British
    representatives signature
  • 1926 King challenged Britain's over its
    influence on Canadas internal politics known as
    ___________________
  • Participated in _____________ Report

16
Review King-Byng Crisis
  • 1925 Liberals had to seek Progressive Party
    support only had 101 seats, Conservatives had
    116
  • Liberals lost Progressive Party support
    because________________smuggling scandal.
  • Kings ministers were protecting the individuals
    and even profiting off of the illegal liquor
    sales to the United States
  • Conservatives called for a motion of censure
  • King asked Byng to dissolve parliament Byng
    refused
  • Byng eventually forced to called an election
  • Sept 14, 1926, King won majority.

17
Halibut Treaty
  • March 2, 1923
  • Canadian-American agreement concerning
    _____________ in the Pacific Ocean
  • Halibut could not be caught in low season
  • Significance _______ treaty Canada signed on
    their own Britain wanted to sign, but King
    threatened to send an ___________ representative
    to Washington

18
Chanak Crisis
  • September 1922 Turkish ____________ were
    unhappy with loss of territory to Greece
  • Expelled Greeks from Smyrna in August 1922
  • Lloyd George reinforced British posts in Chanak
  • King insisted that Canadian Parliament should
    decide on the course of___________ the country
    should follow

19
Balfour Report
  • There was an Imperial Conference (1926)
  • Dominions of the British Empire requested
    __________________
  • Autonomy the freedom to govern themselves
  • Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
  • A special committee under Lord Balfour examined
    the request
  • Published the Balfour report

20
Balfour Report
  • Recommendations to allow for autonomy became law
    in 1931 when the ____________________ was passed
  • Statute formally turned the British Empire into
    the ______________________
  • Canada now equal in status entitled to make its
    own laws

21
Balfour Report (cont.)
  • Two Restrictions
  • Canadas constitution, the British North America
    Act, remained in Britain, because the Canadian
    federal and provincial governments could not
    agree on an ______________________
  • Procedure for changing the Canadian Constitution
  • Judicial court of appeal for Canadians resided in
    Britain until 1949

22
Economic Boom
  • The 1920s started in depression.
  • During the 1920s the US started investing in
    Canadas economy.
  • US Companies set up ___________ which operated
    here but for American business men.
  • US enriched Canadas economy by extracting or
    harvesting raw materials (__________ resources)
  • Materials were transported to US for processing
    and manufacturing (____________ resources)

23
Economic Boom (cont.)
  • With the increase in employment and economic
    prosperity few Canadians questioned the
    __________ effects of American involvement.

24
Economic Boom
  • The 1920s started in depression.
  • During the 1920s the US started investing in
    Canadas economy.
  • US Companies set up branch plants which
    operated here but for American business men.
  • US enriched Canada economy by extracting or
    harvesting raw materials (primary resources)
  • Materials were transported to US for processing
    and manufacturing (secondary resources)

25
Bootlegging the Border
  • The Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
    pushed prohibition into legislation in Canada and
    the US.
  • By ____________ provincial governments were
    overturning the decision because of its
    unpopularity.
  • The US, however, enforced it until 1933.
    Canadians sold illegal alcohol over the border
    for about 10 years.

26
Prosperity Urbanization
  • With the new booming economy Canadians were
    afforded more opportunities to enjoy the luxuries
    of life.
  • _____________ were becoming affordable and
    popular.
  • Telephone lines were becoming commonplace for all
    houses in cities.
  • Professional sports were also increasing in
    popularity.
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