Terms to Know

• Silent Films: predominant product of the film industry (used with orchestra music in the background)
• Talkies: movies made with sound
• Flappers: a young woman who dressed outrageously

  • Hemlines rose about the knees and silk stockings were rolled down
  • Long hair was cut and set in a short bobbed style
• Charlie Chaplin: comedic actor and filmmaker

  • Created the Great Dictator
• Rudolph Valentino: Italian pop icon and sex symbol
• Protestants: a branch of Christianity
• Assimilation: the absorption and integration of people (Aboriginals) into a wider society or culture (Canadian)
• Humiliation Day: When the Chinese Immigration Act banned nearly all Chinese immigrants, including wives and family members of Chinese Canadians