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Why were the 1920’s “roaring”
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THE ROARING TIMES
WHY WERE PEOPLE HAPPY?
•The end of Prohibition
•Urbanization
•Sports
•New roles for women
•New culture
•New technologies!
THE END OF PROHIBITION
•Between 1915 and 1917 every province except Quebecpassed prohibition laws.
•This meant the law banning the sale or possession ofalcohol except for religious or medical purposes
URBANIZATION, EDUCATION,EMPLOYMENT
URBANIZATION, EMPLOYMENT,EDUCATION
•¾ of all factory jobs in Canada were held by men in 1921.Girls education prepared them to work as secretaries,telephone switchboard operators, sales clerks, managers.Expansion of large department stores allowed jobs forwomen.
•About a third of students went on to attend high school fortwo or more years
•Gasoline powered farm machinery slowly replaced much ofthe human labour required on farms
•Less work was available on rural areas
•Most people moved to cities to find jobs
•Thus, Canada's population shifted from rural to urban
•Urbanization: taking the characteristics of cities
SPORTS
SPORTS
•More leisure time to tune into sporting events
•People in cities could even attend gamesnearby
•Lionel Conacher was was the most popular heroo the day –won Stanley Cups in 1930’s
CHANGING ROLES FOR WOMEN
Were women even allowed to play sports?
WOMEN IN SPORTS
WOMEN IN SPORTS
•1928 Olympics marked Canada’s best Olympictrack and field
•Women competed for the first time ever andranked highest in the world
•They set 2 new world records
Women were becoming more independent and achievinggreater freedoms (right to vote, more employment)
WOMEN IN SCHOOL
THE FAMOUS FIVE
The Famous Five – led thefight for women's rights –wanted to have womendeclared “persons” too.
1.Emily Murphy,
2.Nellie McClung,
3.Louise McKinney,
4.Irene Parlby,
5.Henrietta MuirEdwards
THE PERSONS CASE
•Canada’s laws were based on the British NorthAmerica Act of 1867
Many women entered the workplace as nurses,teachers, librarians, & secretaries.
However, women earned less than men and were keptout of many traditional male jobs
NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN
NEW CULTURE
NEW FASHION
•During the 1920s, a new ideal emerged for somewomen: the Flapper
• A Flapper was an emancipated young woman whoembraced the new fashions and urban attitudes
•Drove cars
•Charleston dance
•Smoked cigarettes
•Wore straight dresses
•Too much make up
ENTERTAINMENT
•People wanted to forget the war and havesome fun
•Dances like the Charleston were all the rage
•Jazz was also very popular
MOVIES
•The silent film industry made instant stars out of celebritieslike Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin
•In 1927, the first talking picture came out; “The Jazz Singer”starring Al Jolson
FAMOUS PEOPLE
•Mary Pickford was a major movie star during the 1920sand 1930s.
•Born in Toronto, she was actually known as “America’sSweetheart”.
•She was the first woman to make over $ 1 Million per yearin Hollywood.
•Together with Charlie Chaplin and her husband DouglasFairbanks she created United Artists; a massive filmrecording business
NEW INVENTIONS ANDTECHNOLOGIES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myftn7kzfss
TELEPHONE
•Alexander Graham Bell
•By the 1920s, only 1 in 4 families had a telephone
•However, by 1929, 3 out of 4 Families had a telephone
•Brought people together
RADIO
•Although print media was popular, radio was themost powerful communications medium toemerge in the 1920s
•News was delivered faster and to a largeraudience
•Ted Rogers invented alternating current radio –itcould be plugged in [more affordable]
•More than 80% of shows were from America
THE AIRPLANE
•Dec 17th, 1903, the Wright Brothers perform the firstsuccessful flight of an Airplane at Kitty Hawk, NC. USA.
•Useful during WWI
•Career as “bush pilots”
THE AUTOMOBILE
•In 1893, Henry Ford built his first car
•By 1908, he built his first “production car”; the“Model T”
•This car was also known as the “Tin Lizzie”
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•Very expensive to build and as a result, Fordinvented the “Assembly line”
•It allowed the car to be mass produced quicklyand efficiently dramatically decreasing its cost
•Canada and the United States reacted to theinvention of the car by building roads, gasstations, parking lots and drive in motels
MEDICINE
•Before the 1920s, millions of people around the world haddied from Diabetes
•In 1921, Frederick Banting produced insulin thatsuccessfully controlled diabetes in dogs
•In 1922, a 14 year old boy was the first patient to beinjected with insulin. Insulin was is not a cure. However, itcontrols diabetes and thus extends the life of those whohave the disease.
FREDERICK BANTING VIDEO
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA7jVqYOf2k