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A name given to the New York Stock Market collapse.
What is Black Tuesday?
A natural disaster that contributed to the Depression.
What are droughts?
A tax on imported goods that made the financial crisis worse in Canada.
What are tariffs?
A country that Canada was unhealthily dependent on in the years leading up to the depression.
What is the United States?
A popular mode of transport for poverty-stricken Canadian men during the depression.
What are freight trains?
Products Canada's economy was dependent on.
What are wheat, fish, minerals, pulp and paper?
Government relief payments given to those who had no alternative source of income.
What are pogeys?
Slang for run-down towns in the 1930s.
What is are jungles?
Not including the drought, a reason why families living in the prairie provinces where struggling to survive.
What is the collapse of the wheat market?
An act made by the federal government intended to benefit prairie farmers.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act?
The Prime Minister that made the people feel like he did not care about their suffering.
Who was Mackenzie King?
The Prime Minister that feared poverty-stricken Canadian men would become communists.
Who was R.B. Bennett?
The name of the union that was formed by men living in Canadian work camps.
What is Relief Camp Workers Union?
The man who led the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.
Who was J.S. Woodsworth?
The party that believed capitalism was a wasteful economic system.
What is the Social Credit Party?