CHC2D - Canadian Homefront WW1

What is conscription?

• Convicts are given scripts to read for old-timey radio.

• The right to contain a prescription dose.

• Compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.

• An enemy alien who is forced into jail.

What was the Canadian Patriotic Fund?

• Funds are given to those who demonstrated exceptional ability to ration.

• Provide support to wives and other dependents of those men who had volunteered their services to their Country.

• Funds are taken from fallen soldiers' pay.

• Funds given to soldiers upon their return from war.

What was rationing?

• Throwing away 40% of your food (like we do to this day).

• Eating as much food as often as a person could.

• Soldiers who return with rashes are put into a special quarantine called rationing.

• Not wasting, or stopping use of certain foods

What was a pacifist?

• Those who oppose war on moral grounds.

• A person who lives on the Pacific Ocean.

• A person who speaks pacifically.

• A person who attempts to pacify others with their fists.

Who or what were Enemy Aliens?

• Enemies of Canada.

• Captured enemies who are in war camps.

• Anyone who had not yet gained Canadian Citizenship could have been viewed this way.

• Invaders from another planet.

What was the Homestead Act?

• Gave every able-bodied man a homestead.

• An act that allowed people the option to stay at home instead of going to war.

• All Homesteads were nationalized in order to provide food for the war effort.

• Gave women free legal title to lands.

What was the Married Women’s Relief Act?

• Married women are given a certain amount of food as relief support.

• Once a year married women can go to the spa as a form of relief from wartime Canadian life.

• Married women now have the right to initiate a divorce.

• Entitled widows to a portion of their husband's estate.

Who or what was a suffragist?

• People fighting for the right to vote.

• A person who is suffering so they rage and riot.

• A person who takes joy in suffering.

• A person who places suffering on others.

Why was the Halifax Explosion relevant beyond being a massive explosion?

• The explosion destroyed a very expensive warship.

• The horrors of war had been brought to Canada.

• This was very costly to fix.

• The explosion was a direct attack on Canada by Germany.

What was the Wartime Elections Act 1917?

• Gave the vote to female relatives of Canadian soldiers serving overseas in the First World War.

• Elections would be held using mail-in ballots so soldiers could vote from the battlefront.

• There would be no voting or elections during wartime.

• Only returning soldiers could vote in elections - women, draft dodgers, and other minorities could not vote.