Government Response
Living Conditions
Causes
Solutions
100
People of all ages and all situations wrote to this man for help.
Who is Prime Minister R.B.Bennett?
100
This rate was at 27% during the worst year of the depression, 1933.
What is unemployment rate?
100
On this day, October 29, 1919 the stock market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
What event in 1939 brought about the end of the Great Depression.
What is World War Two?
200
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King did this to put an end to the Depression during its early years.
What is nothing?
200
These were main causes of death during the Great Depression.
What is starvation?
200
This natural disaster hit the Canadian West in 1929 making the region unsuitable for farming.
What is a drought?
200
This group of people believed that individuals and companies that owned businesses, land, and company shares were selfish.
What is the Communist Party of Canada?
300
The Government raised this form of tax in an effort to protect domestic manufacturers and businesses.
What are tariffs?
300
Canadians of European-descent, resorted to demanding the low-pay jobs of these minority ethnicities.
Who are African-Canadians? (Multiple Answers)
300
Buying on this became popular for many Canadians.
What is buying on-credit?
300
The Communists wanted to replace this system with communism to put an end to the private ownership of wealth.
What is the capitalist system?
400
Prime Minister Bennett created this group of experts to study and provide a solution to the Great Depression.
What is the Royal Commission?
400
Tens of thousands of people relied on this for daily survival.
What is government relief? (Three Possible Answers)
400
Many business all over the world did this due to high dependence on high demand of their products. Since they had more supply then demand, these businesses relied less on Canadian natural resources therefore reducing the value of these resources.
What is overproduction?
400
This party favoring the theories of social credit, believed that a redistribution of money in banks and trust companies into the hands of consumers as well as printing more money would jump-start the economy again.
What is the Social Credit Party?
500
The King Government associated the problems of 1929, such as unemployment, as part of this.
What is the business cycle?
500
Due to this event, were forced to leave their farms and look for jobs in the cities. Some even burnt part of their crop.
What is the 1928 Wheat Crop Crash?
500
Most Maritimers in Eastern Canada lacked in this ability because they did were not benefited by the 1920's economic boom.
What is purchasing power?
500
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, consisting of independent members of Parliament, university professors and leaders of farmer organisations adopted this platform which promised to replace capitalism with democratic socialism.
What is the Regina Manifesto?
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