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What did people consider to be a quick way to get rich?
What is the stock market.
100
What is pogey?
What is government relief payments to those with no other source of income.
100
Tariffs were ----- --- ------.
What is taxes and duties
100
What does it mean to purchase on credit?
What is "buy now pay later"
100
What does it mean to buy stocks on margin?
What is small down payment and big loan
200
Who gave the Five Cent Speech?
What is Mackenzie King
200
What is overproduction?
What is too much supply and not enough demand
200
Santa towns were referred to as -------
What is jungles
200
What does Riding the rods mean?
What is ride on the roofs of trains from town to town looking for work.
200
How long did the Prairie drought last?
What is 8 years
300
Name 3 primary products thatCanada depends on.
What is fish, wheat, minerals, pulp or paper
300
Who replaced Mackenzie King?
What is R.B.Bennett of the Conservative party
300
By winter of 1933, more than --- of Canada's workforce was unemployed.
What is 1/4
300
What is a soup kitchen?
What is a place where free food is served to those who are homeless or destitute
300
How much did Bennett give for work-creation programs?
What is $20 million
400
What was the result tariffs?
What is Canada products were harder to sell in other countries and more expensive.
400
Who lead the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation?
What is J.S. Woodsworth
400
The main issue of the 1930 elections was ------------
What is unemployment
400
What are work camps?
What is working in the woods for 20 cents a day in horrible conditions doing jobs such as , digging drains, building roads and clearing land
400
Who lead the ON-to-Ottawa Trek?
What is Relief Camp Workers Union
500
What was the Social Credit party based on?
What is they believe the best way to improve the depression was to give the people money to spend.
500
Why was Mackenzie voted out of office in 1930?
What is the people believed he did not care about their suffering
500
The purpose of the -- -- ------ ---- was to protest the dismal conditions in the relief camps.
What is On-to-Ottawa Trek
500
What is communism?
What is belief that common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state
500
What did Bennett fear about the jobless men?
What is they would fall under the influence of communism