CHC 2P/L – GRADE 10 HISTORY
UNIT 2 TEST: 1920s & 30s
PART A – Matching
i.
ii.
iii.
Match each letter with the correct answer.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Consumer Goods
Frontenac
Prohibition
Rum Running
1.
2.
3.
4.
A period of time in which it was illegal to buy or sell alcohol in Canada.
Things bought by people for their personal use.
A Canadian Car Company based in Toronto
Bringing alcohol produced in Canada across the border to sell in the States.
Match each letter with the correct answer
A.
B.
C.
D.
Boom
Stock or Share
Crash
Tariffs
1.
2.
3.
4.
A tax on goods coming into the country.
A one part ownership in a company.
The worth of stocks went down drastically leading to the Great Depression
Economic increase in the production of goods and services.
Match the slang words in CAPS (letter) with the correct answer (number)
A.
B.
C.
D.
My “DOGS” are tired.
Let’s have some “GIGGLE WATER” with dinner.
This new music is the “CAT’S MEOW”.
All right, now all you kids “SCRAM”.
1. Alcohol
2. Amazing/fantastic
3. Feet
4. Get out of here.
PART B – Multiple Choice
i.
In what year did ALL Canadian women finally get the vote (except for Aboriginal women).
A. 1917
B. 1921
C. 1933
ii.
Which political party did Agnus McPhail help to create in the 1930s
A. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
B. The New Democratic Party
C. The Liberal Party
D. The Union Nationale Party
iii.
Before the car how did farm families get the groceries they couldn’t grow on their own
farms?
A. They’d go to the grocery store.
B. They grew everything they needed on their farms.
C. Order their monthly groceries from a catalogue.
D. Go online and have it shipped to their front door.
iv.
Which one of the following political parties was NOT a new political party formed in the
1930s.
A. Co-coperative Commonwealth Federation
B. The Union Nationale Party
C. The New Democratic Party
D. The Social Credit Party
v.
Who was the Prime Minster of Canada for the most of the 1920s?
A. Teddy Roosevelt
B. Robert Borden
C. R. B. Bennet
D. MacKenzie King
PART C – Fill in the Blanks
i.
ii.
One way people could drink legally during prohibition was if they were "_____" and got a
_____ from their doctor for liquor.
a.
b.
By the mid-1920s the ______ replaced Britain as Canada's number one trade partner.
a.
PART D – Short Answer
i.
Answer ONE of the following questions:
a) Why did American car companies set up branch plant in Canadian cities?
OR
b) Name one way that the car changed the lives of the everyday Canadian.
ii. Answer ONE of the following questions:
a) Name one of the six causes of the Great Depression
OR
b) What does the Prairie Dust Bowl refer to?
iii. Give an example of the "Multiplier Effect" and how it can affect the economy.
iv. In the movie, "Where the Spirit Lives" name THREE things that happened to the Aboriginal
children at the residential school.
v. In 3 - 5 sentences discuss the teacher contracts in the 1920s and your opinion of them.