What is the crop that failed causing families to starve?
What is wheat.
100
Jobs were scarce. This group of people were discriminated against the most because Canadians resented them for possibly taking their jobs away.
What is immigrants.
100
Deal inspired by the United States' New Deal which reformed work rules to shorten the work day, increase minimum wage and increase relief payments by 20%.
What is Little New Deal.
100
Prime Minister King's famous speech which said provinces were responsible for social welfare - the federal government was not. He lost the next election.
What is the Five Cent Speech.
100
Term used to describe the day when the stock exchanged crashed on October 29, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday.
200
When it barely rained for 8 years which allowed fertile topsoil to blow away.
What is drought.
200
Government relief payments which thousands existed on (lower than the minimum wage).
What is pogey.
200
This political party believed that the best way to get out of the Depression was to give people money which was called social credit.
What is the Social Credit Party.
200
Which PM, who made the New Deal, said, "one of the greatest assets a man can have on entering life's struggle is poverty".
What is Prime Minister Bennett.
200
Term used when revenue is less than spending. It is the difference of the two.
What is deficit.
300
What section of Canada was hit the hardest during the Depression?
What is the Prairies.
300
Men illegally hitching a ride on trains to look for work. Also called "riding the rails".
What is riding the rods.
300
This political party was banned in 1931. The fear was that the men traveling the country unsuccessfully looking for work would join this party.
What is the Communist Party.
300
French term when government doesn't involve itself in the economy. Whatever happens, happens.
What is laissez-fair.
300
Every 5 or 6 years this term refers to the cycle of prosperity and recession.
What is business cycle.
400
This insect arrived on the Prairies and stalled buses, trains, and clogged machinery.
What is grasshoppers.
400
Shanty towns which sprung up around cities mostly with men who traveled from place to place looking for work.
What is jungles.
400
In 1935, protesting against horrible camp conditions, over a thousand men left the interior BC camps to take their complaints to Ottawa.
What is On to Ottawa Trek.
400
This Commission wanted the federal government to spend huge money to create job training and job creation programs.
What is National Employment Commission.
400
Economic system where both public and private companies produce goods and sell those goods, hoping for profit.
What is capitalism.
500
This act gave aide to farmers to build reservoirs and irrigation systems (but by then many farmers had given up and moved away).
What is Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act
500
Work camps where men were paid 20 cents per day with room and board, to work on digging drains, clearing land, and building roads.
What is Relief Camps
500
Term PM Bennett used to describe the men protesting in the Ottawa Trek.
What is radicals.
500
This Commission studied the issue of who was responsible for providing economic assistance to Canadians - the federal government or the provincial government?
What is the Rowell-Sirois Commission.
500
This type of economy occurs where both producers and consumers determine which products will be sold and how much will be paid for those products.