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Leading up to 1929
Social Effects
Political Effects
Federal and Provincial Action
Consequences
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A term used to describe the tariffs used that meant to protect the U.S domestic market by making foreign items more expensive. However, these tariffs caused a slowdown in world trade as opportunities for export shrank.
What is protectionism?
100
Government relief payments given to those who had no alternative source of income.
What is pogey?
100
In Quebec, Maurice Duplessis, a former Conservative brought a newly formed party to power in 1936. The party was a nationalist French-Canadian party that relied upon the support of Roman Catholic Church and rural voters.
What is the Union Nationale party?
100
In 1935, the federal government passed this act to help farmers build irrigation systems and reservoirs. By this time, drought and poverty had forced many families to leave their farms and move elsewhere.
What is Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act?
100
As a result of the depression, the federa government made payments to some provinces so that the standard of living will be more uniform across Canada.
What is equalization payments?
200
Great Britain, France relied on Germany's payments to them so they could pay back their own war debts to the United States. Germany failed to do this.
What is reparations?
200
If applicants meet certain requirements, these were given so they could buy food. However, they were never enough to cover expenses. Obtaining them was a humiliating experience.
What is food voucher?
200
A new prime minister that was elected in the year 1930. He was a leader of the conservative party. His government fave provinces 20 million for work-creation programs. This prime Minister also pledged to "use tariffs to blast a way" into world markets and out of the Depression. He did this as a way to raise tariffs and protect the Canadian industry. Mackenzie King lost him as he failed to understand the magnitude of unemployment that plagued Canada.
Who is R.B Bennett?
200
In October 1932, Prime Minister R.B. Bennett created a nationwide system in Canada, that consists of camps to house and provide work for single, unemployed, homeless Canadian males. Men working there were paid twenty cents a day.
What is Royal Twenty Centers?
200
In British Columbia, a Liberal was elected in 1933. He was a strong believer in greater provincial spending power, and promised voter s a "Little New Deal" based on the New Deal in the United States. He also introduced reforms to shorten the work day, increase minimum wage and increase relief payments by 20 per cent.
Who is Dufferin Pattullo?
300
A central international demand that Canada's economy was known for, prior to the depression. The demand for this supply decreased gradually and drastically after the stock market crash.
What is wheat?
300
Following the collapse of the wheat market, families of the prairie provinces were left struggling to survive. A disastrous event began in 1928, and lasted for eight years. It was also during this time when a plague of grasshoppers descended onto the Prairies, stalling trains and buses.
What is drought on the prairies?
300
In Ontario, a party came to power in 1934 for the first time in 29 years. The leader was a populist farmer, Mitch Hepburn, who won wide support by championing the causes of "the little man."
What is the Liberal party?
300
The Prime Minister feared that the _______ party would come to power during the depression and arrested several of its leaders, including Tim Buck, the party's general secretary.
What is Communist Party?
300
A ruthless dictator that rose to power after the death of Lenin (leader of the Russian Revolution). Also called the 'man of steel.' His cruel agricultural and economic policies caused the deatho fo millions of Soviet workers.
Who is Josef Stalin?
400
Canada's biggest trading partner and largest investor. Shortly after this country's economic demise, Canada's economy began to suffer the same consequences as well.
What is ties with United States?
400
A mode of transportation for the penniless, traveling to places in high hopes for work. A euphemism for hopping on freight trains and riding on roofs or rods underneath the train.
What is "riding the rods?"
400
A party formed in the West in 1932 called ____________ ______________ ___________. The party was consisted primarily of intellectuals, discontented liberals, laborers, and socialists. The leader was J.S Wordsworth. The party was socialist and stated its support for public ownership of key industries.
What is Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)?
400
In an effort to win over Canadian listeners, and to protect the Canadian culture, the federal government created a public radio service called _________ ________ ________ in 1936.
What is Canadian Broadcasting Corporation?
400
A dictator that became the Chancellor of Germany by January 1933. By March he won control of the German parliament using the Reichstag fire as an excuse to execute and exile his political opponents.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
500
The year when the price of wheat on the world market began to fall. Canadians who bought shares after this year suffered more than those who bought shares prior to this year.
What is 1927?
500
In the winter of this year, more than one-quarter of Canada's workforce was unemployed.
What is 1933?
500
In 1935, men left the camps in the forest to protest conditions they endured there. Under the leadership of their union, the Relief Camp Workers United decided to take their complaints to Ottawa. This event became known as ___________.
What is On-to-Ottawa Trek?
500
A commission set up to examine the state of unemployment in Canada in 1936. Prime Minister King's views clashed with this commission.
What is the National Employment Comission?
500
Apopulist political movement strongest in Alberta and neighboring British Columbia, 1930s-1970s, based on the economic theories of an Englishman, C. H. Douglas. A central proposal was the free distribution of prosperity certificates (or social credit), called "funny money" by the opposition.
What is Social credit?