The main problem for Canadian farmers and what this caused
what are droughts and bankruptcy?
100
A tax that made Canadian products more expensive and harder to sell in other countries
What is a tariff?
100
This government relief payment given to those how had no alternative source of income and its two main negative effects
What is 'pogey' causing disease and starvation?
100
Over 170 000 single men spent time in these camps
What are work camps?
200
October 29 1929, also known as the Black Tuesday
What is the stock market crash?
200
The sale of these products that Canada was heavily dependent on for the success of its economy
What are wheat, fish, minerals, pulp and paper
200
During the economic boom years of the 20s, many Canadians purchased items on credit, developing this motto
What is “buy now, pay later” ?
200
This term used to identify men who road trains from cities in search for jobs
what is "riding the rods"?
200
Canadians demanded that the federal government ease the economic crisis. In this famous speech, Prime Minister Mackenzie King said that social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces and
What is the 'five cent speech'?
500
The percentage of unemployment at the end of the economic boom vs the percentage of unemployment in the depression
What is 4.2% and 25%?
500
As the economy improved in the early 1920s, businesses responded by increasing production of this stockpile of goods
what is newsprint, radios, clothing, and cars?
500
A small down payment with a big loan that became this major cause of the depression
What is buying on margin?
500
Canada was affected by the depression mostly in this area for these three reasons
What is the Prairie provinces due to drought, dust storms
and grasshopper plague
500
What are two ways R.B. Bennett attempted to get Canada out of the Depression?