The Depression
The Depression
The Depression
The Depression
The Depression
100
Producing more than there is a realistic demand for.
What is overproduction?
100
The idea of a “buy now, pay later” system.
What is buying on credit?
100
Buying stocks on a small down payment and a large loan.
What is buying on margin?
200
When countries respond to a slow economy by placing tariffs on imported goods.
What is protectionism?
400
This party believed that the best way to ease the Depression was for the government to put money in people’s pockets and encourage them to spend it
What is the Social Credit Party?
400
Places created by the government for unemployed single men to make a living.
What are work camps?
400
When a thousand men left the camps in the interior of British Columbia in protest against camp conditions
What is the On to Ottawa trek?
400
When Prime Minister Mackenzie King said that social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces and he wouldn't aid any province without a liberal government.
What is the Five Cent Speech?
400
This party supported social programs such as income assistance, and publicly funded health care to help those in need.
What is theCooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)?
500
What Premier Dufferin Pattullo promised voters.
What is the Little New Deal?
500
When countries respond to a slow economy by placing tariffs on imported goods.
What is protectionism?
500
Prime Minister R.B. Bennet's attempt to improve the economy.
What is the New Deal?
500
When unemployed men traveled on trains in search of work.
What is "Riding the Rods"?
500
An act established in response to the widespread drought, farm abandonment and land degradation of the 1930s.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act?