Causes
Consequences
Disasters to Farmers
Solutions Devised
Political Changes
100
This event occurred on October 1929 in New York, Toronto and Montreal, causing many Canadians to go into severe debt.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
100
25% of Canadians became this after the Depression.
Who were the unemployed, homeless and poor.
100
Farmers went bankrupt because of these things
What are the decreased crop prices due to competition from other countries, and the droughts destroying all the crops?
100
A speech presented by PM William Lyon Mackenzie King that angered the citizens causing him to be voted out in the 1930 election.
What is the “Five Cent Speech” that indicated PM King's lack of care for the people's suffering?
100
Reason new parties became more popular
What is having more radical ideas in solving the Depression than traditional political parties?
200
This caused businesses to slow production and lay off workers, which prevented workers from spending on goods and further slowed down the economy.
What are businesses overproducing products more than the actual demands?
200
Group unaffected by the Depression.
Who were the middle-class Canadians that experienced little change in lifestyle?
200
PM Bennet's proposed elaborate solution to the Depression.
What is the “New Deal” that focused on progressive taxation, unemployment and health insurance?
200
Method that the Social Credit Party believed was best at easing the Depression that the federal government eventually disputed.
What is the government giving people money or “social credit” in order to encourage people to spend on products in order to jump start the economy?
300
Many countries placed this on imported goods, due to world economy slowing, which hurt Canada's sale of products.
What are tariffs that made Canadian products more expensive and harder to sell?
300
Method unemployed Canadians used to search for jobs across Canada.
What are Canadians travelling across the country by hopping freight trains, riding on roofs or clinging to rods underneath train?
300
This caused the “On to Ottawa” Trek.
What are people protesting against the work camp conditions that treated workers as slaves and forcing them to live in poor conditions?
300
Mitch Hepburn's actions that went against his campaign of supporting the “Little Man”.
What is ruthlessly suppressing worker strikes and doing little for the unemployed, despite rallying against big businesses?
400
It was the Canadian economy's biggest weakness in the 1920s.
What is depending too much on the sale of natural resources to other countries?
400
The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act, a plan to build irrigation systems and reservoirs for farmers, failed because of this.
What is being implemented too late, as many farmers already moved due to the drought and poverty?
400
These ideas from the National Employment Commission conflicted with PM King's belief that government shouldn't intervene with economy
What is finding unemployment a national problem and advising federal government to spend millions on job creation programs?
500
Besides money, both the poor and certain wealthy individuals lost this after the Depression hit Canada.
What is people having their dignity and well-being robbed by the Depression?
500
The true reasoning behind the creation of Work Camps.
What is preventing the rise of communism and crime in unemployed single-men by isolating them deep in the woods?
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