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WorksheetsCHC2D: 1920's and 1930's Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 17mins
The 1920's can be summed up in one word: __________
CHAOS
COVID
CHANGE
CARBON
Which of the following was NOT a major area of change during the 1920's?
Women's Rights
Immigration
Technology
Labour and Working Conditions
The group of Canadian women who pushed for women to be known as persons were called:
The Famous Five
The Person's Case
Nellie McClung
Suffragettes
Which of the following was NOT a cause of Prohibition?
Social Conditions: Women's groups argued that alcohol was the cause of many of society's problems
WWI: Temperance groups argued that valuable grains should be sent to the soldiers fighting the war
Political Conditions: Having won the right to vote, women's rights activists campaigned against alcohol
Economic Conditions: Since the economy was in the 'boom' stage, people didn't want to drink alcohol
Name one positive consequence of Prohibition.
Name one negative consequence of Prohibition.
Which Canadian city was the site of a general strike in 1919?
Toronto
Winnipeg
Regina
Yellowknife
Which of the following is NOT a cause of the Winnipeg General Strike?
Social Conditions: Workers were unhappy with poor working conditions and wages.
Political Conditions: The idea of Communism, where everyone shares in the wealth of a country, was gaining popularity around the world.
Unions: One Big Union represented all of the workers in Canada.
Economic Conditions: Many men were returning from WWI and looking for jobs, wages remained low, and inflation was rampant.
Soldiers returning from WWI had to deal with a pandemic known as:
COVID-19
Bubonic Plague
Angus fever
Spanish Flu
Was the Winnipeg General Strike a success? (Explain).
Choose all of the BACKGROUND causes of the Great Depression. (Hint: One is wrong)
Dependency on Primary Products
Overproduction and Overexpansion
The Business Cycle
Dependency on the United States
High Tariffs
The Trigger Cause of the Great Depression was:
(a)
During the Great Depression, young, unemployed men were often sent to work at:
Internment Camps
Relief Camps
Unemployment Housing
High-paying office jobs
The "Dustbowl" in the Prairies was caused by:
A plague of grasshoppers that ate all the crops
A fungus that destroyed crops
The Stock Market crash
A drought
2 ways people tried to escape the Great Depression were: (2 answers)
Movies
Watching sports such as hockey
Netflix
Illegal drugs such as heroin
