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Consequences
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The event that took place on October 29th, 1929 and became the beginning of the Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash
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Canada was reliant on the sale of products such as wheat, fish, minerals, and pulp and paper to customers around the world. Although when other companies started to sell the same products, prices fell and the Canadian economy suffered.
What is Canada's dependence on a few primary products
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The Canadian economy being heavily reliant on the sale of their primary products only to their southern neighbour.
What is Canada's dependence of the United States
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By the winter of 1933, young jobless, homeless men would look for work from one place to another. Penniless, they travelled the country by hopping freight trains, or riding on the roof or clinging to the rods underneath trains.
What is Riding the rods
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The government decided to create these camps for unemployed, single men. They were located in deep woods so that men were completely isolated, and their jobs would include; building roads, clearing land, and digging drains.
What are work camps
200
Countries raising tariffs on imported good, when the economy slowed down.
What is Protectionism
200
What does the follow phrase identify; "Buy now, pay later"
What is Buying on Credit
200
Buying stocks with a small down payment and a big loan; in hopes to make a quick profit when prices go up
What is Buying on Margin
200
A famous speech by Mackenzie King in which he said that social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces and he would not give a anything to any province that did not have a Liberal government.
What is the "Five Cent Speech"
200
In 1935, thousands of men left the camps in British Columbia to protest against horrible camp conditions. Under the leadership of their union, the Relief Camp Workers Union, the men decided to take their complaints to Ottawa.
What is "On to Ottawa" Trek
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In 1935, the federal government passed this act that helped farmers build irrigation systems and reservoirs.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act
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Bennett giving government relief to those who were suffering from poverty. 1. His government would give provinces $20 million for work-creation programs 2. Imposing high tariffs by 50% on imported goods; in hopes it'd convince people to buy cheaper Canadian goods, and get Canada out of the Depression
What is the "New Deal"