The Roaring 20s

The roaring 20’s was an era of consumerism, leisure, and rebellion. The women of 1920 smoked, drank, danced, and voted. They cut their hair, wore make-up, and went to massive parties. They were called flappers. Young women did not date instead they waited until a proper young man showed interest with right intentions. Since nearly a whole generation of young men had died in the war, there was nearly a whole generation of young women without possible suitors. The biggest change was political. Many women believed that they had a right to have a part in politics, and they noticed that political decisions affected their daily lives. When the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920 it gave women the right to vote. Women were active in politics in 1929, although they had little power; they were closer to actual political equality.
The upper class had many new appliances and by having an appliance it showed your social status. They also had servants to do their work and other chores. In middle-class homes, female family members were the main source of labor at the home they had electric appliances but they had to run them. The servants were hired to do only the difficult tasks.
The position of the working class in Canada in 1920 was extremely difficult because of the permanent pressure from the part of employers and the government. Because of these challenges Canadian workers had started to organize unions at both local and national level and eventually created the CCF, the political party which stood for their interests at the top level of Canadian politics. Married working-class women were forced to work outside the home as housekeepers or in manufacturing industries. Most working-class women never had electrification or electric appliances.
During the twentieth century a series of movements, many of them illegal were planned by officers of the Department of Indian Affairs to isolate reserve lands. This movement to take over reserve lands was continued in different form during World War I. The result of these assaults on western reserves was that, when native populations began to increase in the late 1920s or 1930s, the reserves were unable to support them. What followed, in the 1950s and 1960s, was a huge migration to western cities. Efforts to create a national political organization for Aboriginal people first began in Ontario and Québec during WWI, when the American-based Council of Tribes began a brief campaign to expand into Canada. In 1919 the League of Indians of Canada was formed in Ontario by F.O. Loft. Loft's efforts in the early 1920s to bring western Aboriginal people into the league were surprisingly effective.
In the 1920s 1.2 million immigrants arrived in Canada. Immigration accounted for only 14 % of the total population growth. Part of the decline in immigration was the after-effect of the First World War. The Canadian government increased their permissions against certain immigrant groups. As well, the Canadian government continued to maintain their preference for would-be farmers, domestic servants and agricultural workers.
In conclusion the roaring 20s was an appropriate name for the decade because a lot of things happened in Canada in 1920 because of the strong economic situation from WW1. There were many differences and changes in North America in the abundance of consumer goods being bought just because they could.