A speech that the prime minister gave when Canadians demanded the government deal with the economic crisis.
What is the five cent speech?
100
Building roads, clearing land and digging drains.
What is the projects men worked on?
100
A time in the 1920's where Canadians faced economic downfall.
What is the depression?
100
1933
When?
100
Cooperative Commonwealth federation.
What is ccf?
200
That social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces and he wouldn't give a "five cent piece" to any province that did not have a liberal government.
What did the prime minister say?
200
Unemployed Single men in British Columbia.
Who were the people that were in them?
200
Buying now and paying later.
What is buying on credit?
200
Jumping on freight trains to get from place to place.
What is riding the rods?
200
A popular group in 1935 that believed that the best way to end the depression was for the government to give people money.
What is the social credit party?
300
The people were convince the prime minister did not care about their suffering.
What is the way Canadians responded?
300
around 170,000 men
What is the amount of men in these camps?
300
Buying with small down payment and a big loan
What is buying on margin?
300
Young, jobless, homeless men.
Who rode the rods?
300
William Aberhart
What is the leaders name of the social credit party?
400
Mackenzie King
What is the prime ministers name who gave the speech?
400
20 cents per day.
What is the wage they were paid?
400
Many countries places tariffs (taxes and duties) on imported goods.
What is Protectionism?
400
They did this to find work.
Why?
400
During the Depression, many voters voiced their complaints with the government in action by voting certain provincial parties.
What is provincial solutions?
500
R.B Bennett.
What is the prime ministers name who was voted into office after the five cent speech?
500
Terrible food, beds infested with bugs, located in isolation deep in the woods.
What was conditions?
500
1939
What is the end of the depression?
500
A time when men climbed on trains to protest work conditions to the prime minister.
What is the Ottawa trek.
500
Mackenzie king.
What is the prime minister that came into power in 1935 when Canadians were fed up with Bennett?