Dust Bowl
A long period with no rain.
What is a drought?
This was the trigger event of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market crash?
The taking back of possessions to repay loans.
What is repossession?
A tax on goods coming into the country.
What are tariffs?
A party that wanted to pay people $25 a month.
What is Social Credit?
These insects destroyed crops, poisoned animals and ate everything in their path.
What are grasshoppers/locusts?
This was a major industry in Canada in the 1930s.
What is wheat?
Living in a tent city.
What is a shanty town/hobo village?
A missive sent to Bennett asking for money, food or items.
What is a letter to Bennett?
The name of the horse Seabiscuit raced in his big match race.
Who is War Admiral?
A type of fungus that kills plants.
People borrowed too much money and were unable to pay it back.
What is over-reliance on credit?
A payment made in vouchers to the unemployed.
What is relief?
Camps where men were paid 20 cents a day for hard labour.
What are relief camps?
The person who beat Bennett in the 1935 election.
Who is Mackenzie King?
A storm caused by drought.
What is a dust storm?
People made too many products and couldn't sell them.
What is overproduction?
What is a Bennett blanket?
A protest led by Arthur Evans.
What is the On to Ottawa Trek?
The leader of the On to Ottawa Trek.
Who is Arthur Evans?
A regulatory board meant to protect Canadian farmers.
What is the wheat board?
The United States was in a major depression as well.
What is Canada's dependence on the U.S.?
Jumping on trains to travel from town to town.
What is riding the rails?
A series of reforms meant to create a minimum wage, maximum working hours, health care and worker's safety.
What is Bennett's New Deal?
The CCF is called this today.
What is the NDP?