A) wartime industries closed
B) high unemployment
C) high inflation
D) all of the above
Why were veterans resentful after WWI ended?
A) women gave up jobs
B) decrease in cost of living
C) factory owners prospered
D) All of the above
Who was Ted Rogers?
A) invented the first battery-less radio
B) Prime Minister of Canada during 1920s
C) coined the term, "He shoots, he scores!"
D) strike leader that was later elected to the Manitoba legislature
What was Mackenzie King's "Five cent speech"?
A) set of radical reforms to solve the problems of the Great Depression
B) claim that he would not give any money to provinces with Conservative governments
C) he promised to give citizen's of Alberta a social credit of $25 a month
D) claimed he would remove the nickel from Canada's currency to stimulate the economy
What was the Balfour Report?
A) made Canada completely self-governing
B) declared that Canada would be part of the Commonwealth of Nations
C) Canada's refusal to send military aid in a dispute between Britain and Turkey
D) allowed females in Canada to be appointed to the Senate
Who discovered insulin?
A) Frederick Banting
B) Ted Rogers
C) Foster Hewitt
D) Armand Bombardier
How did the Canadian government attempt to assimilate the Aboriginals?
A) abandon cultural traditions
B) residential schools
C) League of Indians
D) all of the above
What was the Person's Case?
A) fight for women to be appointed to judge
B) to allow women to work in profession of doctor and lawyer
C) fight for women to be viewed as "persons" under the law and to be appointed to Senate
D) to allow all citizen's over 18 to be viewed as "persons" under the law
Who was Lionel Conacher?
A) famous radio announcer of Hockey Night in Canada
B) athlete who sailed the sailboat, Bluenose
C) famous doctor who delivered the Dionne quintuplets
D) famous male athlete of the 1920s who played multiple sports
A Bennett buggy was:
A) shacks where unemployed people lived during 1920s
B) car Prime Minister Bennett drove during the 1920s
C) car with no engine pulled by a horse / farm animal
D) all of the above
The increase of production in factories leading to the stockpiling of products was a cause of the Great Depression called:
A) dependence on United States
B) overproduction and over expansion
C) high tarriffs
D) buying on margin