THE CITIZENS
DEFINITIONS
CAUSES
DATES
CONSEQUENCES
100
Maker of social programs in which to help the public survive the depression
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation?
100
A diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict
What is Appeasement?
100
Buying shares with only 10% down, repaying 90% when profits made - making people financially ruined when prices plummeted
What is "Buying on Margin"?
100
October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday
100
Many unemployed workers took this march in order to gain improved rights in the workplace.
What is the On to Ottawa Trek?
200
Brought Canadian farmers into financial distress during the depression with a long stray of these.
What is a drought?
200
The purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker.
What is " Buying on a Margin"?
200
A term used for having made to much of a product, beyond reasonable demand.
What is Overproduction?
200
By which year, nearly 25% percent of all Canadians were unemployed
What is 1933?
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
Living off the railroad in order to travel and find work during the depression.
What is Riding the Rods?
300
A speech was delivered to the Canadian public in the late 1920's. This is when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie said he wouldn't give even a nickel of funding to Conservative provinces
What is Five Sent Speech?
300
The mindset that led to high tariffs on imported goods thus hindering the sales of products.
What is Protectionism?
300
Unemployment jumped from 4.2% to 24.9%
What is 1929 to 1933 due to the New York Stock Exchange collapsing?
300
The leading moment that set forth the depression in North America.
What is the New York Stock Market Crash?
400
The official declaration of ones eviction from there house and overall lack of finances was a requirement for...
What is the "Pogey"?
400
An intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
What is League of Nations?
400
Unemployment jumped from 4.2% to 24.9%
What is 1929 to 1933 due to the New York Stock Exchange collapsing?
400
The men lived and worked in these camps at a rate of twenty cents per day before walking out on strike.
What is April 1935?
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
Voters were disappointed with Bennett's inability to deal with the crisis of the Depression so they voted who back to power
Who is Mackenzie King?
500
A term used in Canada during the Great Depression to describe a car which had its engine and windows taken out and was pulled by a horse. In the United States, such vehicles were known as Hoover carts, named after then-President Herbert Hoover.
What is Bennett Buggy?
500
Made Canadian products more expensive and harder to sell in other countries causing the economy to slow down even more
What are Tariffs?
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