What was the governments leadership like during the depression?
Shaky, unstable, negative
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What is overproduction?
The over producing of supplies. Factories made more than was needed
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What in the environment cause the depression?
drought 1929, 1931,1933-1937
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What was one of the main outcomes during the depression?
unemployment rates sored
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When was the wall street crash?
October 29, 1929
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Herbert HooverWho was often pointed blame at in the government for causing the depression
Herbert Hoover
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What year did the "on-to-ontario trek" happen?
1935
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What are tariffs?
taxes/duty placed on imported goods, used to restrict trade.
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How did overproduction affect the economy?
Factory owners and farmers spent a lot of money producing lots of goods and when they didn't sell as much as they though they would they went bankrupt and closed down
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Why did environment causes cause the depression.
Canada was very dependent on many of it's resources. With the bad weather crops were weak and farmers had nothing to sell and make money off of
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Who succeeded Herbert Hoover as President.
Franklin D Roosevelt
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The five cent speech was delivered by...
Prime Minister Mackenzie King
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What is buying on margin?
investors buying stocks with borrowed money with the hope that stocks would ride significantly