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Economy
100
This famous speech is what caused William King to lose the 1930 election
What is the "Five Cent Speech"?
100
These were constructed to prevent jobless, homeless young men from turning to crime and communism.
What are work/relief camps? Camps built for men who were single and unemployed, where they would work dead-end jobs and only got paid 20 cents a day.
100
Canada's federal government introduced this act in 1935 to help prairie farmers build irrigation systems.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act?
100
This lead to there being more supply than demand, which caused many job lay-offs and slowed down the economy.
What is overproduction? (Many businesses and factories produced more goods than was necessary).
100
This event lead to massive job losses and a dramatic decrease in stock prices
What is the Stock Market crash?
200
R.B. Bennett believed that this was the solution to the Depression
What is High Tariff Protectionism? (Raising Tariffs to "blast a way" in the global market for Canadian products)
200
People could qualify for pogey by doing this.
What is declaration of financial failure? People declared their financial failure, swore they owned nothing of value, and provide proof of eviction from their house.
200
The Depression was the most severe on the Canadian Prairies because of this.
What is "Drought on the Prairies" - Many Factors: 8 year drought, wheat market crash, "Dust Bowl", Grasshopper Plague, "Rust", 40% of wheat exports were sold to the USA.
200
Canada's dependence on this relationship contributed to the Depression.
What is Canada's dependence on investment from the USA?
200
Many investors began doing this with their shares out of caution
What is Buying on Margin (Investors bought stocks using borrowed money) They'd leave a small down payment, then pay off the rest later.
500
It took many governments a while to respond to the Depression because of this
What is unawareness that it was an international issue? Means of solving the problem would be radical, many democracies feared radical change.
500
The "On to Ottawa" Trek occurred because of this
What is dissatisfaction with R.B. Bennett's dead-end approach to handling unemployment? Many men felt upset with the poor living and working conditions in the relief camps.
500
This event jeopardized a valuable export in Canada and made life harder for many families on the prairies.
What is the Wheat Market Crash?
500
Following WWI, this was a global financial factor that lead to the Depression.
What is international debt? Many foreign countries got loans from the USA, but had difficulty paying them off because of restriction from tariffs.
500
The Great Depression highlighted this weakness in Canada's economy
What is its independents on two natural resources - Wheat and Newsprint weren't selling, many job losses due to factories shutting down.
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