Textbook Assignment on the Twenties:



Textbook Assignment on the Twenties:

How Did Canadians Respond to Postwar Challenges?

How did Canadians Respond to the Economic Boom of the 20s?

How did Canada’s Relationship with the U.S. Change?

Strikes and Labour p. 155-157

1. First read about the post-World War One conditions for workers in Canada on pages 155 to 156. Then explain why many returning soldiers started to organize unions i.e. what kinds of changes were they hoping for?

2. In ten key points write a summary timeline of what happened in the Winnipeg General Strike.

A Growing Economy p. 160

3. Highlight the four key areas of Canada’s economy that started to boom in the 20s.

Hard Times in the Maritimes p. 160

4. Explain why the Maritimes remained poor while the rest of the country was experiencing good times.

Foreign Ownership p. 161

5. What were some benefits of American branch plants in Canada and what were some drawbacks?

American Isolationism p. 201

6. What was one sign that the United States was returning to its policy of isolationism after World War One?

7. What were the Americans particularly uncomfortable with in the League of Nations requirements?

Immigration Policy p.201

8. What kinds of groups were severely restricted from immigrating to Canada during the 1920s?

9. Why were many Europeans from Southern and Eastern Europe excluded?

International Trade p. 202

10. How much did Canadian imports to the United States drop when the U.S. put up protective tariffs?

11. When Canada then put countervailing tariffs on American goods coming into Canada what happened to the trade between our nations?

The Americanization of the Canadian Auto Industry p. 202

12. By the beginning of World War One, how many automakers were operating in Ontario?

Boom and Bust in the Auto Industry p. 203

13. Explain using statistics, the boom that occurred in the 1920s in the Canadian auto industry. When did the boom end?

Manufacturing Innovations p. 203

14. Explain the three new innovations developed in the auto industry that made production quicker, kept costs down and kept employees loyal.

Textbook Assignment on the Twenties:

Strikes and Labour p. 155-157

1. First read about the post-World War One conditions for workers in Canada on pages 155 to 156. Then explain why many returning soldiers started to organize unions i.e. what kinds of changes were they hoping for?

-The hard times meant that few jobs were available and by the end of 1921, 20% of all veterans were unemployed.

-They had expected more from the government and Canadian society to protect them and frustrated that they had suffered so much and had been poorly paid while serving with the Canadian Military while Canadians at home prospered and were successful.

-They lobbied for better benefits, but were not satisfied with what they received.

-They were angry when they could not find jobs. Few services were available for these soldiers

-Disappointed by the government’s and the public’s response to their needs and situations

-By grouping together, they hoped the Federal Government would have to do something and compensate and provide aid, benefits and pensions.

2. In ten key points write a summary timeline of what happened in the Winnipeg General Strike.

1. Strike: May 1 1919 by members of Winnipeg’s building-trade unions because employers refused to negotiate a wage increase

2. Strikers joined by city metal workers the next day, May 2

3. May 15, Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council called for a city-wide strike to support the striking workers—> 30 000 strikers

4. Stores, factories closed, city streetcars stopped.

5. Postal workers, firefighters and police officers joined the strike

6. Citizen’s Committee of 1000 formed to oppose the strikers (business owners, politicians and bankers)

7. Citizen’s Committee recruited volunteers to replace striking workers and fired all Winnipeg police officers who refused pledge and hired new officers.

8. Government workers ordered to return to work by the Federal Government. Immigration laws changed to be able to deport an immigrant striker.

9. June 21, the protest turned violent—100 people injured and 1 worker as dead, later 2 died

10. The army moved in to occupy the streets of the city—the strikers returned to work on June 25gh, six weeks after the strike began. Some fired; other had to sign agreements not to join a union.

A Growing Economy p. 160

3. Highlight the four key areas of Canada’s economy that started to boom in the 20s.

Hard Times in the Maritimes p. 160

4. Explain why the Maritimes remained poor while the rest of the country was experiencing good times.

Foreign Ownership p. 161

5. What were some benefits of American branch plants in Canada and what were some drawbacks?

American Isolationism p. 201

6. What was one sign that the United States was returning to its policy of isolationism after World War One?

7. What were the Americans particularly uncomfortable with in the League of Nations requirements?

Immigration Policy p.201

8. What kinds of groups were severely restricted from immigrating to Canada during the 1920s?

9. Why were many Europeans from Southern and Eastern Europe excluded?

International Trade p. 202

10. How much did Canadian imports to the United States drop when the U.S. put up protective tariffs?

11. When Canada then put countervailing tariffs on American goods coming into Canada what happened to the trade between our nations?

The Americanization of the Canadian Auto Industry p. 202

12. By the beginning of World War One, how many automakers were operating in Ontario?

Boom and Bust in the Auto Industry p. 203

13. Explain using statistics, the boom that occurred in the 1920s in the Canadian auto industry. When did the boom end?

Manufacturing Innovations p. 203

14. Explain the three new innovations developed in the auto industry that made production quicker, kept costs down and kept employees loyal.

Emily Murphy:

Emily Murphy (Born Emily Gowan Ferguson 14 March 1868 – 17 October 1933) was a Canadian women's rights activist, jurist, and author. In 1916, she became the first woman magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were "persons" under Canadian law.

In 1927, Murphy and four other women: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who together came to be known as "The Famous Five" (also called "The Valiant Five"), launched the "Persons Case," contending that women could be "qualified persons" eligible to sit in the Senate. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that they were not. However, upon appeal to the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council, the court of last resort for Canada at that time, the women won their case.[1]

Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney (20 October 1873 – 1 September 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s.

Her great causes were women's suffrage and the temperance. She understood that the First World War had played an important role in broadening the appeal of women's suffrage because the manpower shortages required widespread female employment, making the image of the sheltered female more obviously inapplicable to Canadian circumstances.[5] It was largely through her efforts that in 1916 Manitoba became the first province to give women the right to vote and to run for public office.[6] The Government of Canada followed suit that same year. After moving to Edmonton, Alberta, she continued the campaign for suffrage. She championed dental and medical care for school children, property rights for married women, mothers' allowances, factory safety legislation and many other reforms. McClung was a supporter of the then popular social philosophy of eugenics and campaigned for the sterilization of those considered "simple-minded". Her promotion of the benefits of sterilization contributed to the passage of eugenics legislation in Alberta.[7]

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