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 the family anymore
What is an Emergency Relief Agency?
Conservative party leader in 1934 proposed the new deal for canada.
Who Is R.B Bennet?
A phrase for when companies went bankrupt and they had to do this to their workers.
What is “laying workers off”?
Hard physical labour in exchange for 20 cents a day and a room
What are relief camps?
A phrase people used when they were going to get financial support in forms of payments.
What is “Going Down The Dole”?
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?
Relief was usually given in the form of _______, not cash
What are tickets?
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?
Critics say that R.B. Bennett made a ________ _______, only to win the election.
What is a "death bed conversation"?
When indigenous peoples were prohibited from expressing their native traditions or languages and forced to
What is assimilation?
Relief was usually given in the form of _______, not cash
What are tickets?
Phrase for unemployed men taking trains and hiding in boxed cars for work
What is “riding the rods”?
During a press conference, Jim answers “I fight for _________”
What is milk?
In 1928, Mamie Smith was the first to record this genre of music.
What is the ‘blues’?
To pay for equipment and labour, businesses and farmers would do this with the banks.
What is borrowing money?
In order to ensure that people were following the rules when applying for relief assistance, these people searched their homes.
Who are relief office investigators?
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?