-high employment
-lots of demand for consumer goods (equaled to lots of production)
-rationing
-soldiers
-factories converted
-agriculture
-women joined work force
Overproduction
Stock market crash
plebicite: a vote
conscription: making enlisting mandatory
Mackenzie King
- Halibut Treaty (with USA), - Statute of Westminster 1931, Canada had high employment (factories), farming sent produce, rationed,
1917-fed elections for those who had relatives in military
1918-all women of legal age could vote in fed elections
Effects of the G.D on economy and people
Identify at least 3 points:
-high unemployment
-low manufacturing rate
-loss of jobs, evictions, bankruptcies, companies had to close,
Men travelled "ride the rods"
economic: USA investors, created personal income tax, favored agriculture, did not support unions,
Social: church had a lot of power, very traditional: aim was to protect and promote a traditional way of life that was strongly tied to farming,