Causes of the Depression
Canadian Political Parties 1930s
Government Reaction to the Depression
100
A time without much rain.
What is a drought?
100
This person won the 1935 federal election in Canada with a majority.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
100
The Platform for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation that included income assistance and publicly funded health care.
What is the Regina Manifesto?
200
A tax on imported goods to make people buy local goods.
What is a tariff?
200
This Conservative party leader in 1934 proposed the New Deal for Canada.
Who was R. B. Bennett?
200
Where single jobless men were hired to work during the 1930s.
What is a Work Camp?
300

This motto from the 1920s convinced people to pay with credit.

What is, "Buy Now Pay Later"?

300
He was the leader for the Union Nationale Party in Quebec in 1936.
Who was Maurice Duplessis?
300
What the Social Credit Party proposed in 1935 to encourage people to spend more money.
What is "Social Credit" or "basic dividend"?
400
Buying stocks this way lets you buy more shares than you can afford by borrowing money.
What is "Buying on Margin"?
400
This Canadian political party governed from 1935 to 1971 in Alberta.
What is the Social Credit Party?
400
The provincial Liberal leader who proposed the "Little New Deal" which included shorter work days and an increased minimum wage.
Who is Dufferin Pattullo?
500

Canada depended on these five exports in the 1920s and 1930s.

What were wheat, fish, paper, pulp, and minerals?

500
This Canadian political party from the 1930s became the New Democratic Party.
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation?
500
The name of the Commission that decided that the government should have more control over taxes, and that the government should use this money to provide unemployment insurance and equalization payment for the poorer provinces.
What was the Rowell-Sirois Commission?
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