Legal restriction on the sale of alcoholic beverages
What is prohibition?
100
R.B. Bennett
Who was the prime minister when the Great Depression took place?
100
A time period in the prairies consisting of dust storms, prairie fires, and extreme droughts
What was the "Dust Bowl?"
100
During the Depression, approximately what fraction of the workforce was unemployed?
1/4
100
What was the name of the protest regarding better camp an work conditions in 1935?
On-to-Ottawa Trek
200
Began on October 29, 1929 - the day of the stock market crash
What is Black Tuesday?
200
An act designed to help farmers build irrigation systems & reservoirs.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act?
200
The semi-arid area in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, where the drought in the prairies hit especially hard.
What is Palliser's Triangle?
200
Limited government relief payments provided to those who had no source of income.
What is "pogey?"
200
This expression describes illegally jumping into a moving freight train; men would often do this to get to another town or another area of the country to find work.
What is "riding the rods?"
500
Define "Buying on Margin."
Buying shares with only 10% down & repaying the remaining 90% after profits are made in the stock market.
500
What radical solution did economist John Maynard Keynes propose in response to the Depression?
He proposed that governments should spend their way out of the Depression, by borrowing money and then spending said money on large employment projects.
500
Name four of Canada's main exports, which were no longer creating any profit.