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Economy
100
Government relief payments.
What is Pogey?
100
October 29, 1929
When was Black Tuesday?
100
Were set up by the Canadian government to alleviate unemployment and get young single men off of the streets.
What are Work Camps?
100
In 1930, Mackenzie King was voted out by this person.
What is R.B. Bennett?
100
Caused an artificial economic boost and led to mass layoffs.
What is Overproduction?
200
A period of severe economic and social hardship, massive unemployment, and horrible suffering.
What is the Great Depression ?
200
The year when 25% of Canadians were unemployed
What is 1933?
200
It caused Mackenzie King to lose the election.
What did the Five Cent Speech do?
200
Said that social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces.
Who is Prime Minister Mackenzie King ?
200
Were put in place to improve Canada's economy, but instead made things worse.
What are Tariffs?
300
As men road freight trains across the country looking for work, they would stay a few nights in these places.
What is jungles ?
300
1934, 1936, and 1939 - 40.
When were the three dustbowl waves?
300
Bennett was unsuccessful in campaigning this.
What is the New Deal?
300
The major cause of Black Tuesday.
What is Buying on Margin?
400
The dustbowl was a period of severe duststorms that damaged the US and Canadian Praires.
What was the Dustbowl?
400
They went bankrupt in a single day.
What happened to investors that borrowed heavily to buy their stocks during the depression?
500
Wheat, Fish, Minerals, Pulp and Paper
What resources did Canada heavily rely on.