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Depression Facts
Life during Depression
Causes
Consequences
Political Change
100
30s
When was the Depression in Canada?
100
Overproduction
Because of this there was too much stuff unsold in warehouses and businesses had to lay off workers.
200
Dirty Thirties
Which famous name was given to the time of Depression?
200
suicide
For many people the sad decision to escape the miserable life.
200
United States
Onliest trading partner of Canada
200
Five Cent Speech
Famous speech of Mackenzie King ("I would not give a 5 Cent piece to non liberal provinces")
300
25%
How much percent of society were unemployed at the height of the depression in 1933?
300
"Riding the Rods"
What is the name for the activity of jumping on different freight trains to find jobs in other towns?
300
"Buy now, pay later!"
Catchphrase to buy credits
300
R. B. Bennett
Who was the new Prime Minister after Mackenzie King lost the elections in 1930.
300
"On to Ottawa" Trek
protest of over a thousand men of Camp Workers Union
400
Buying stocks and stock market
What did people see as easy way to get rich before the Depression?
400
1928-1936
In which period of time Canadian farmers had to survive droughts on prairies?
400
wheat, fish, minerals, pulp, paper
Primary products on which Canada depended
400
Work Camps
170,000 men worked there in the woods for 20 cents per day
500
"pogey"
The poor people had to life on government payments which were called ...
500
J.S. Woodsworth
Leader of Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)