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The Decade Of Satisfaction And Misery

The Decade Of Satisfaction And Misery

The Decade Of Satisfaction And Misery

Roaring 20's

Women
Earned more rights
Women became more involved in the society then they ever been before

They mostly worked as secretaries,teachers,nurses,factory workers,sales clerk

getting payed half as much as men did

Danced with men (charleston)
Became known as flappers
Started wearing provocative clothing
Drank and hung out with men at clubs
Broke social rules
Slang words
Flat- tire
Gangster
Gin Mill
Hooch
Big cheese
Apple sauce
Health Care Advancements
James Collip

Discovered the parathyroid hormone which improved understanding of the calcium concentrations in the body

1924

Frederick Banting

His formula helped many people with diabetes

His first patient Leonard Thompson a 14 year had successful results

He tested it on dogs first

Testing on dogs was not a bad thing back then and people accepted it

Created the formula for insulin to control diabetes

A doctor from Toronto

Cities
Population was rising

more stores,houses,schools,hospitals were needed

Urbanization

Urbanization was rising noticebly in Toronto and Montreal

the process by which cities are formed

More job opputunities in the city had more people settling in
Arts & Media
Visual Arts

The grouo of seven

The group traveled to several places to get ideas for their paintings

Members:Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald and Frederick Varley.

Mostly inspired by European styles

Sports

Foster Hewitt a Canadian radio supporter who was notable for his in depth calls for "hockey night in Canada

Made more people watch the sports channel and got lots of people intrested

Lionel Conacher was an energetic competitor

Most sports played in the 20s were b-ball,hockey,baseball

Dance

Well known among the youngsters

Dances mostly danced to jazz music

3 Step Dance

Tango

Black Bottom

The Charleston

Movies

Movies with sound in them were called "talkies"

First talkie was made in 1927

Charlie Chaplin was a very popular star

$0.25 to see a movie at this time

Radio

The radio aired operas,music,sport broadcasts,drama comdey

Canadians listened to Jazz music

Canadians were influenced by Americas culture

It was like a television back in the time

Economic Growth
This time the economy was growing

Here is a chart showing how high economic growth was in the 20s

American companies invested in Canada more branches opened up in Canada meaning more money and economic growth

Mostly took place in Ontario,Quebec and the praires

Forestry,Mining,Wheat,Technological manufacturing

More agriculture

Technology
Telephone usage

Used for communication more effectively

First developed by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876

Phone had 2 pieces

Model T

Was the most popular automobile at this time

Built by the ford motor company

More roads and infrastructure needed

spent $94,000,000

Henry Ford made an assembly line

1913

Dirty 30's

Economics
Drought

Prairies experienced the worst drought

soon resembling as a desert

Farms turned to dust and plants, tress died

Didn't rain for about a decade

Banks and governments overreacted

People lost their homes,cars and even the clothes they had

Banks called back their loans too

Banks seized their property

US called back their loans and stopped trading with other countries

Many Branches closed

Affected Canada because Canada and America were big trading partners

Stock Market Crash

On October 29,1929 New York stock exchanged caved in and stock prices became nothing

People basically lost everything

Billions of investments and dollars became worthless

Stock markets around the world followed this

"black tuesday"

With most people buying with borrowed money the stock market was headed in a bad place

Share prices dropped

Causing panic people tried to get rid of their shares as fast as they can

Buying on credit

People started spending more money then they made

Loans became available during this time

Around the end of the 30s people had a hard time paying off the loans

People started buying unnecessary things and started playing around with the stock market

People took advantage of this

Unemployment

Standard of living decreases

Factories closing because there were no sales

People who had jobs had a decreases in their wages

In many Canadian cities lots of people did not have jobs (25%)

People protested to get their job back at places they used to work

Some people couldnt afford many things

Leaving people homeless,hungry

Overproduction

People are buying all the new consumer products that were becoming available

Companies were expanding rapidly

Companies started making more products then they could ever sell

Price drops and not much products were selling

Demand for products were not at the same pace as before

Companies opened new factories

Companies needed more people to work