What was the year that New York Stock Market collapsed?
100
"pogey"
What was the term for public welfare?
200
To cash in on high profits
Why did people start selling their stocks?
200
For feeding the hungry and homeless
What are soup kitchens for?
300
Businesses had produced more than they could sell
Why did businesses lay off workers?
300
Almost 8 years
How long did the drought last in the Prairies?
300
R.B Bennett
Who replaced Mackenzie King as Prime Minister?
400
They made Canadian products more expensive and harder to sell in other countries
What were the consequences of tariffs?
400
"Riding the Rods"
What was it called when homeless, jobless men "hopped freight trains?
400
"Five Cent Speech"
What was the name of the famous speech that Prime Minister Mackenzie King delivered that convinced people that King did not care about their suffering?
500
"buy now, pay later"
What was the motto of purchasing items on credit?
500
"Jungles"
What was the common slang for "shanty towns?"
500
"On to Ottawa Trek"
What was the name of the trek that men of Work Camps took to express their complaints to Prime Minister Bennett?