Causes of the Depression
Definitions
Solutions
Stock Market Crash
100
One of the main causes of the Great Depression was its dependence on a specific country.
United States of America
100
A thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest
What is a loan.
100
the day of the 1929 stock market crash known as?
What is Black Tuesday
200
A period of severe economic and social hardship, massive unemployment, and horrible suffering
What is the Great Depression.
200
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett sanctioned the creation of a nationwide system of camps to house and provide work for single, unemployed, homeless Canadian males.
What is work camps?
300
What is the cause of the Great Depression made prices drop?
What is Overproduction.
300
Completely lacking in a particular quality or value.
What is bankrupt
400
one cause of the stock market crash?
What is buying stocks on margin.
400
As the world economy slowed down, many countries responded by placing tariffs on imported goods.
What is Protectionism
400
People decided to take their complaints to Ottawa. They crowded into and on top of freight cars and headed east to complain to Prime Minister Bennett in person.
What is On to Ottawa Trek
500
Is a tax that is added onto goods which is imported into a country
What is HIGH TARIFFS
500
An unemployment or welfare benefit.
What is pogey.
500
Act of Parliament in 1935 in response to the widespread drought, farm abandonment and land degradation of the 1930s
What is Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act