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THE “UNROARING 1920’S”
Was the 1920’s really roaring?
ROARING 20’S
• As you recall, many changes had taken place during the 20’s, but it was not beneficial to everyone, especially:
• Labour Unrest
• Prohibition
• Visible Minorities
• Aboriginal people
WORKERS
• Employees worked long hours with no chance of promotion
• As other forms of energy became available, market for coal dried up –wages for miners were cut by a third [20-30 cents per hour)
• Violent strikes [Winnipeg Strike, 1919]
• We now have EI and welfare programs to help support us, but that did not exist at the time
Unhappy workers joined together to make a union
LABOUR UNREST
PROHIBITION
• Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU] worked to ban sale of liquor in Canada
• Prohibition [1915-1917] outlawing the sale and consumption of alcohol –introduced as part of the war effort
…BUT
• It didn’t work, people who wanted to drink, still did it
• To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden saloons known as “speakeasies”
• “Bootlegging” became a big business as a way to make money illegally
• By 1924, realized it might be better to legalize alcohol
HTTP://KCTS9.ORG/PROHIBITION/RUM-RUNNERS-CANADA-ROLE-PROHIBITION
CRIME
• Prohibition contributed to the growth of organized crime
• Chicago became notorious as the home of Al Capone – a famous bootlegger
VISIBLE MINORITIES
• Many visible minority groups faced political, social and economic discrimination
• Asian Communities:
• By 1920, B.C. already had a large Chinese population –came to build the railway.
• Smaller groups of Japanese and Sikhs settled around Vancouver/Victoria
• They were refused work, paid lower wages [resulted in them starting their own businesses –became a close-knit community]
• Black Communities:
• Many had come from USA, others were escaped slaves
• They were given right to vote at Confederation, but were not treated as equals
• For example: Nova Scotia and Ontario set up schools for Black students, but did not fund them properly
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
• Since the Indian Act 1876, lives of First Nations peoples had been bound up in strict regulations enforced by the RCMP
• Traditional ceremonies and dances were forbidden
• Could not vote unless they left their reserve
• Residential Schools, 1920
• All First Nations children [aged 7-15] were required to live most of the year in a government funded school [80 in total]
• It was a way to assimilate[forcing someone to stop being who he/she is and become someone else] them into the Canadian culture
• Only speak English, abused, follow Christian ways
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QUESTIONS
• Pg. 82 # 5, 6
• Pg 85 # 8
• Pg 88 # 10