Names of the Depression
The nickname of the Great Depression in Canada
What is The Dirty Thirties?
Often thought to be the main cause of the Great Depression
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
The area of Canada that had entered into economic decline prior to the Great Depression
What is the Maritimes?
Massive labour upheaval that led to class/government tensions in the Prairies.
What is the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919?
Why was it the Roaring Twenties?
What was a growth in exports, industrialization and urbanization, a prosperous workforce spending more money. Social change and mobility for workers, minorities, and women.
The name used to describe taking freight trains across Canada as the unemployed searched for work
What is riding the rails?
Two significant outcomes of the
Great Depression in Canada
What is the birth of social welfare?
What is a more activist role for government in the economy?
The three causes of crop failure on Prairie farms during the Great Depression
What is an eight year drought?
What is grasshoppers?
What is hail storms?
Some reasons for Prohibition.
1. Various religious groups thought alcohol was sinful
2. Reformers believed that alcohol led to wife and child abuse, and accidents on the job
3. Reformers believed that the government should protect the public's health
Explain communism
What is an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship. This puts an end to owning private property, substituting government ownership of factories, railroad, etc.
The name given to government relief payments
What is the dole?
Canada's dependence on these products/industries was one of the causes of the depression.
What is wheat?
What is exports?
The area of Canada most impacted by the Great Depression
What is the four western provinces (the pairies)?
The Red Scare.
What is a time of panic and fear throughout the Canada and the United States after revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks in Russia overthrew their current regime and called out to abolish capitalism everywhere
Explain major changes in the roles of women.
What is the person's case?
Who is Emily Murphy?
What is social freedoms and changes in fashion?
The name given to the shanty towns that sprung up in the Canadian countryside for unemployed men.
What is relief camps?
Dependence on the United States partially caused the Great Depression in Canada through this cause and effect relationship
What is when U.S. factories shut down and unemployment rose then demand for Canadian products dropped and Canadian factories were forced to shut down?
The reason that Ontario and Quebec were less affected by the Great Depression than the rest of Canada?
What is more diversified industrial economies?
The relationship between King and Byng
What was the consitutional crisis and the Balfour Declaration of the Imperial conference of 1926 limiting the powers of the Governor General
The groups of Canadians that were most affected by the Great Depression
What is farmers/small businessmen?
What is women/minorities?
What is poor young people/unemployed?
What is Indigenous groups?
The name of Canada's most violent event of the Great Depression, where one police officer was killed, dozens were injured, and 130 arrests were made
What is the Regina Riot?
The six main causes of the Great Depression in Canada
What is product overproduction?
What is Canada's dependence on a few primary products and the impact of tariffs?
What is over dependence on the United States?
What is the closed door policy?
What is Canadians buying on credit?
What is Canadians buying stocks on margin?
The devolution of the economic cycle during the Depression.
What is over production, lower demand, lay-offs and factory shut-downs, less consumption.
Canada had experienced years of prosperity, explain how industrialization, mechanization, and the consumer cycle led to an economic boom.
More industrialization and factories built during the war, now used to manufacture good (some made from natural resources). Mechanization helped the process as new technology allowed for faster, better work. People hired to work, had money, spent it on more goods.
Explain the long-term impact of the Winnipeg General Strike.
Workers rights, unionization, governments scared of communism. Eventually new political parties (J.S. Woodsworth forming the CCF).