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Socials11: Ch3
1920's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| collective bargaining | negotiation of a contract between unions and management regarding such things as wages and working conditions. |
| Citizens' comittee of One Thousand | Strike nonsympathizers: business leaders, politicians, and industrialists, formed to combat the strikers. |
| regionalism | concern of the various regions of the country with their own local problems |
| minority government | - a government in which the ruling party has less than half the seats in the legislature |
| autonomy | - the freedom to govern themselves |
| British commonwealth | - an association of nations that were formerly colonies in the British Empire. The British Commonwealth of Nations is now known as the Commonwealth of Nations |
| amending formula | - the procudure for changing and act |
| branch plants | - factories, offices, or other operations set up in Canada but owned or controlled bu U.S. or other foreign companies |
| primary industries | - industries dealting with the extraction or collection of raw materials, succh as mining or forestry |
| secondary industries | industries dealing with manufacturing or construction |
| plebiscites | a direct vote by electors on an issue of public importance. The outcome of the cote may not be binding on the government |
| urbanization | - the process by which an area changes from rural to urban |
| Group of seven | - painters, used broad, bold strokes and brilliant colours to interpret canadian landscapes. |
| aboriginal title | - claims by aboriginal people to lands that their ancestors inhabited |
| cut off lands | - government encroaching on native territory |
| depression | - a downturn in the economy. The most severe ecenomic depression of the 20th century in the 1930's is sometimes called the Great Depression. |
| 1919 | 1. Winnipeg general Strike gives voice to post-war dissatisfaction |
| 1920 | 1. League of Nations established with Canada as a full member 2. BC becomes first province to bannish prohibition |
| 1921 | 1. Minority government elected. Agnes McPhail becomes first woman to be elected to parlaiment. 3. Fredrick banting and Charles Best discover insulin. |
| 1926 | 1. Kyng-Byng crisis focusses on Canada;s push for autonomy from Britain. 2. Imperial conference leads to publication of the Balfour report |
| 1927 | 1. Federal government allows for old age pensions, introducing government-run social assistance for the first time in Canada |
| 1928 | 1. Allied Tribes of BC goes to Ottawa to argue for land treaty negotioations |
| 1929 | 1. Pearsons Case opens the way for Canadian women to be appointed to Senate 2. Stock market crashes Oct. 29. |
| J.S Woodsworth | - founder of the Cooperative Commonealth Federation (CCF), became NDP |
| Mackenzie King | - Newly appointed leader of the liberals in 1919. Pushed for greater indapendance of canada. |
| Byng | - Governor general Viscount of Britain, clashed with King on the notion of a re election, in lieu of a liquor smuggling scandal and potential vote of censure |
| Agness McPhail | - first woman elected to the house of Commons |
| Emily Murphy | - well known suffragest appointed as a magistrate of Alberta. Opponents argues women weren't deemed persons under BNA act. Joines with 4 other woman and appealed to M.K to change act. Cour ruled in their favour in 1929. |
| 1918 | 1. End of WW1. 2. Flu Epidemic |
| What sparked strikes... | - post war inflation, wages no longer covered cost of rent and food. - Workers demanded higher wages, better working conditions, right to join unions. |
| socialist | - beleiving ordinary peopel should have more involvement in government |
| communism | - all means of production was publically owned, no private or individual ownership of buisinesses or land. |
| Winnipeg general strike | - May 1919, Winnipeg metal and building workers walked off the job: higher wages, shorter work week, right to collective bargaining. 30, 000 people. |
| June 21, 1919 | Bloody saturday, rcmp attacked winnipeg strike protestors. Marked end of winnipeg strike of 43 days. |
| The balfour report recommended.. | .. colonies of the Brit empire (canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) have their autonomy formaly recognized. |
| Emily Carr | - famous painter on pacific coast, painted scenes of west coast forests and aboriginal life. 1920's. |
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