Cinderella Man
The sport James Braddock relied most of his income on
What is boxing?
The legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is Prohibition?
When many Canadians were in debt, homeless, unemployed and hungry.
What is the Great Depression?
Someone just passing by an area, staying very briefly
What are transients?
Those who had stocks in the market lost virtually all of their money.
What is Black Tuesday?
The agency the main character goes to once he cannot support for his family anymore
What is an Emergency Relief Agency?
Prime Minister of Canada in 1930.
who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
Licence that must be turned in to receive financial aid
What is an automobile license?
When transients illegally used the freight train as a mode of transportation during the bitter hardships.
What is riding on the rods?
Large neighbourhoods of small shack houses, occupied by homeless Americans
What is “Hooverville”?
Conservative party leader in 1934 proposed the new deal for canada.
Who Is R.B Bennet?
When the religious order was in charge of assimilating the Indigenous peoples until 1986.
What are residential schools?
Hard physical labour in exchange for 20 cents a day and a room
What are relief camps?
Money collected from goods being transported into the country.
What are Tariffs?
Where Braddock and many others showed up, to try and get called on to work
What are the docks?
Relief was usually given in the form of _______, not cash
What are tickets?
Known as the replacement workers of the people who were part of the WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE.
What are Scabs?
During a press conference, Jim answers “I fight for _________”
What is milk?
Phrase for unemployed men taking trains and hiding in boxed cars for work
What is “riding the rods”?
An institution where companies can list shares in their businesses to the public in order to attain money to invest back into their company.
What is the STOCK MARKET?