Causes
Effects
Events 1
Events 2
100
The New York Stock Market.
What is heralded as the beginning of the Depression?
100
Massive unemployment, poverty, and hardship.
What were the effects of the Depression
100
Mackenzie King
Who did the 5 cent speech?
200
The government would not give any social welfare for any non-liberal government.
What was the point of the 5 cent speech?
300
Piles of merchandise was left unsold, but more arrives.
What is overproduction?
300
Men stowed away on trains trying to find work.
What was "riding the rails"?
300
Benett raised tariffs by 50%, and other countries retaliated similarly.
What caused the depression to become even worse.
400
Droughts caused very little crop yield, and Canada depended on those resources.
What caused many farmers to become bankrupt?
400
Money given to people who had no other way to get money.
What was a pogey?
400
The Five Cent Speech
What caused Mackenzie King to be quickly voted out of office?
500
Investors oversold stocks, reduced their value immensely.
What series of events caused the stock market crash?
500
25% of Canadians.
How many people in Canada were unemployed and poor during the Depression?
500
A model for a new tax system, insurance, and other things to improve living in Canada.
What was the New Deal?
500
Protesters resisted being moved by RCMP, and over 100 people were arrested, with one death.
What ended the "On to Ottawa Trek"?
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