Dates
Events
Causes
Terms
Effects
100
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Who became President of the USA Nov. 8, 1932?
100
The year of the End of Prohibition.
What is 1933?
100
The three biggest factors which caused and deepened the depression in Canada.
What are unemployment, drought and bankruptcies?
100
The name of the worst economic depression in US history.
What is the Great Depression?
100
Those hardest hit in the world by the Great Depression.
What is North America?
200
It was the year that the Prairies were hit by a disastrous drought and how long did it lasted.
What started in 1928 and lasted almost 8 years?
200
The name of the plan Franklin D. Roosevelt began March 1933 for America which he hoped would restore the banking system.
What was the "New Deal"?
200
The major cause that began the Great Depression.
What was the collapse of the stock market?
200
Government relief payments given to thousands who had no alternative source of income.
What was "Pogey"?
200
It took 'this' to pull Canada out of the depression
What was the outbreak of World War II?
300
It was the decade known as the “Dirty Thirties.”
What was the 1930s?
300
The name of the kind of storms that hit the prairies by the mid-spring of 1931 causing millions of hectares of fertile topsoil to blow away.
What were "Dust storms"?
300
Conditions in the prairie provinces that were particularly severe and leaving families struggling to survive.
What caused the collapse of the wheat market?
300
The motto that was used during the boom years of the 1920s, when many Canadians started to purchase items on credit?
What was “buy now, pay later”?
300
The result of the sell off of stocks.
What is the value of stocks fell dramatically?
400
It was the month and year that the stock market crashed.
What was October 1929?
400
He served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930, to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years.
Who was R.B. Bennett?
400
In the hope they could make a quick profit when prices went up, many Canadians bought these with a small down payment and a big loan.
What are stocks on margin?
400
The name of the many shanty towns that sprung up in and around cities that the men would stay a day or two in after "riding the rods".
What are "Jungles"?
400
The percentage of all Canadians which were unemployed, homeless and desperately poor by 1933—the height of the Depression.
What was nearly 25%?
500
The years that Canadian farmers faced serious droughts.
What are 1929, 1931 and 1933-1937?
500
How many countries responded as the world economy slowed down.
What was by placing tariffs (taxes and duties) on imported goods.?
500
Unequal distribution of wealth, over speculation in the Stock Market and increased manufacturing and agricultural output.
What are three primary causes of the Great Depression?
500
The name of the Act passed in 1935 by the federal government which helped farmers build irrigation systems and reservoirs.
What is The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act?
500
The products that the Canadian economy was heavily reliant upon.
What are wheat, fish, minerals, and pulp and paper?
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