Roaring Twenties Check-In CHC2L

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Industrial production became faster, more efficient, and cheaper than ever before so everything from cars to household appliances became affordable to average Canadian families.

• Arts

• Sports

• Mass Production

• Women & the Persons' Case

Henry Ford developed new techniques for mass production. He used a ​ ​ (a)   in his car factories.​

• moving assembly line
• race track
• gifting station
• trench

In 1927, American pilot Charles Lindbergh became a celebrity when he made the first successful solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean (New York to Paris).

• TRUE

• FALSE

In the 1920s, airplanes and commercial air travel became more popular, meaning more regular people were able to fly as a means of transportation and not just pilots.

• FALSE

• TRUE

Cellphones and radios become popular for mass communication in the 1920s. People started owning these devices at home.

• FALSE - it was telephones, not cellphones

• TRUE

In 1927, the first transatlantic telephone call was made. This was from _________ to _________. Hint: it was from North America to Europe.

• Canada to Spain

• America to Britain

• Canada to France

By the mid-1920s, sound and talking were incorporated in moving pictures (movies) - these became known as (a)   .

• talkies
• walkie talkies
• runnies

One of the famous movie stars from the 1920s was the English-born actor, but American famous, ____________.

• Charlie Chaplin

• Liza Minelli

• Ramon Novarro

• John Barrymore

The “Group of Seven” painters were known for their landscape paintings depicting nature and Canadian wilderness, untouched by human activity. Which of the following statements make sense?

• They were not very popular in Canada.

• They are a source of Canadian pride and nationalism.

• They were not very good.

• They were not from Canada.

(a)   paintings were deeply influenced by the First Nations culture of the Northwest Coast in British Columbia.

• Emily Carr's
• Joan Jett's
• Margaret Atwood's