Dates
Definitions
People
Causes
Consequences
100
October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday
200
By which year, nearly 25% percent of all Canadians were unemployed
What is 1933
200
Government relief payments given to those with no other source of income
What is pogey
200
In 1930, Mackenzie King was voted out by this person
What is R.B. Bennett
200
Buying shares with only 10% down, repaying 90% when profits made - making people financially ruined when prices plummeted
What is "Buying on Margin"
200
Unemployed, single men were isolated deep in the woods getting paid 20 cents a day because the federal government created this for them
What is work camps
300
Said that social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces - wouldn't give a "five-cent piece"
Who is Prime Minister Mackenzie King
400
Unemployment jumped from 4.2% to 24.9%
What is 1929 to 1933 due to the New York Stock Exchange collapsing
400
Caused the suffering of the production of goods, such as wheat, fish, minerals, pulp and paper
What is other countries beginning to produce the same goods, creating much competition and loss of sales
400
Overproduction of goods was a cause of the Depression. Businesses had to do something which affected their workers drastically
What is businesses having to slow down production by laying off their workers which created even more unemployment and a decline in the economy
500
As men road freight trains across country looking for work, they would stay a few nights in shanty places that they had nicknames for
What is jungles
500
Made Canadian products more expensive and harder to sell in other countries causing the economy to slow down even more
What are tariffs
500
Poor men traveled across country by hoping on freight trains
What is "riding the rods" looking for work due to the high unemployment rates
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