The major cause of depression. Where many Canadians bought stocks with a small down payment and a big loan.
What is "buying on the margin"
100
One of the main causes of depression where businesses increased their production. However, they produced too many causing items to stay unsold.
What is overproduction?
100
A motto where Canadians would purchase things on credit but resulting in many Canadians to lost their jobs and unable to pay back the payments.
What is the meaning of "buy now, pay later"?
200
Taxes that many countries placed on imported goods making products from Canada more expensive but harder to sell.
What were tariffs?
200
Lasted for eight years and destroyed all of the farmer's crops leaving families struggling to survive.
What were the droughts?
200
What the federal government created to help the unemployed and single men.
What were the work camps?
300
Prime Minster Mackenzie King's response to the Canadian's demands on improving the economic status.
What was the Five Cent Speech?
300
Investors sold their stocks to get big profits but when the value to stocks fell, many investors went bankrupt.
What was the stock market crash?
300
When more than a thousand men boarded freight cars that were heading to Ottawa to protest to the government about their working conditions at the work camps.
What was the "On to Ottawa" Trek?
400
Leader of the Conservatives who took over the Prime Minister position when Mackenzie King got voted out of power.
Who was R.B. Bennett?
400
Believed that the government should give people money and encourage to spend it was the best way to ease the Depression.
What was the belief of the Social Party?
400
Government relief payments for those who didn't have an alternate source of income. Had to swear and prove that they had nothing.
What was the "pogey" life?
500
Established in 1937 by Mackenzie King to study the issue of federal and provincial relations.
What was the Rowell-Sirois Commission?
500
When the many unemployed, and homeless men boarded freight trains by even riding on the roof or holding onto the rods that were underneath the trains. Traveled to look for jobs.