This is the first stage of the business cycle, in which all is well.
What is prosperity?
100
October 29th, 1929 was this dark day.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
This was the slang term for government assistance programs.
What is pogey?
100
This famous speech caused Mackenzie King to lose the election in 1930.
What is the five-cent piece speech?
100
Farmers took the engines out of their Model-Ts, hitched them to a horse and called them these.
What are Bennett Buggies?
200
This rise in prices due to increased demand is known as this.
What is inflation?
200
One cause of the depression was this practice of buying before having the money to buy.
What is credit?
200
The CCF released this document as a response to the depression and declaration of their intentions.
What is the Regina Manifesto?
200
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt introduced this economic policy that stressed greater government intervention in the economy.
What is the New Deal?
200
This was the nickname for an area of the prairies that received almost no rain between 1930-1937?
What is the dust bowl?
300
If inflation rises faster than real wages, businesses will begin letting go of workers due to decreased real demand, which can lead to this stage of the business cycle.
What is recession?
300
A reliance of the Canadian economy of these types of goods led to the depression.
What are staple goods or natural resources?
300
In Quebec, the depression brought on the rise of this party.
What is the Union Nationale?
300
In June 1935, thousands of men in British Columbia grew tired of the work camps, boarded freight trains and began to move east.
What is the On-to-Ottawa trek?
300
This 1937 law gave the government of Quebec the power to lock out any "subversive" groups.
What is the Padlock Law?
400
This happened mostly due to WWII.
What is recovery?
400
Our dependence on this neighbour meant that when they crashed, we had no choice but to do the same.
What is the United States?
400
In general, relief camps paid people this amount of money per day.
What is 20 cents?
400
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council struck down major components of this plan in 1937.
What is Bennett's New Deal?
400
Opposition parties in Alberta nicknamed these "funny money".
What are prosperity certificates?
500
The western economy was geared toward the production of this staple.
What is wheat?
500
Shares were bought on this - a bad move.
What is on margin?
500
This party believed that the reason for the Depression was that farmers simply did not have enough disposal income to play their rightful role as domestic consumers.
What is Social Credit?
500
The CCF first came to power in this western province.