People
1920s
Politics
The Great Depression
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This women's basketball team played for the love of the game and nothing else, and their record hasn't been beat since!

Who were the Edmonton Grads

100

This refers to having a ban on the making and selling of alcohol, which was common in Canada until it was changed in most provinces in 1924.

What is prohibition

100

The General Strike, which saw more than 30,000 workers go on strike, took place in this Canadian city. 

What is Winnipeg

100

When angry Relief Camp workers decided to travel across Canada to speak to the Prime Minister and request improvements, the event became known as this. 

What is the On-To-Ottawa Trek

100

This is what finally brought an end to the Great Depression.

What was WW2

200

This former Prime Minister lost the 1930 election after taking a laid-back attitude towards the Great Depression.

Who was William Lyon Mackenzie King

200

This new concept allowed consumers to "buy now, pay later",  which ultimately led to many people falling heavily into debt.

What is buying on credit

200

In the 1935 election, the Conservative party promised minimum wages, an 8-hour workday, unemployment insurance, and price controls as part of their Canadian version of this. 

What is the New Deal

200

The day the stock market crashed is referred to as this.

What is Black Tuesday

200

This slang term is used to refer to the homeless unemployed men who would 'ride the rails' from town to town looking for work. They also had their own language.

What is a hobo

300

This female athlete won silver and gold medals in women's track.

Who was Bobbie Rosenfeld

300

This concept permitted factories to manufacture goods such as cars with greater speed and efficiency as it meant workers only needed to know how to do one skill, and their colleagues knew how to do the others. 

What is an assembly line

300

This political party won the 1935 election.

What is the Liberal Party

300

This cause of the Great Depression saw unsold extra things being warehoused and accumulating, and factories being shut down until the extra things were sold.

What is Overproduction

300

This was one of the jobs considered "natural" for women at the time.

What were a cleaning lady, a teacher, a nurse, or a clerk

400

This politician was responsible for creating Relief Camps to try to deal with the increasing number of unemployed men in major cities.

Who was R. B. Bennett

400

Fashion changed, and dresses were designed to be short and loose-fitting so as to emphasize these body parts rather than the hips and chest. 

What were arms and legs

400

This was Mackenzie King's slogan in the 1935 election.

What is King or Chaos

400

The Relief Camp Trekkers protested with these 6 demands. 

What were: 1) more money, less hours    2) Welfare   3) PPE and money if injured   4) right to vote    5) form a union   6)camps not run by National Defence



400

This term refers to a period of optimism in the stock market.

What is a Bull Market

500

This woman became the first female judge in Canada. 

Who was Emily Murphy

500

More people were able to purchase things like washing machines because this was now available in homes.

What is electricity

500

After the leaders of the Trekkers were unsuccessful in talks with the government, protests erupted and turned into riots in this Canadian city.

What is Regina

500

This is the lesson Canada learned after relying too much on a resource-based economy.

What is the need to diversify

500

R. B. Bennett was the leader of this political party.

What is the Conservative party

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