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He was the 10th Prime Minister of Canada.

Who is Prime Minister Mackenzie King?

100
This party's power came to an end 1930 and R.B. Bennett and the Conservatives took control of the federal government.
What is the Liberal Party?
100
Unemployed men would travel across Canada, hopping freight trains, either riding inside, on the roof or hanging on underneath - travelling city to city.
What was called "Ridin the Rods"?
100

The Prairies were hit by a disaster that began in 1928 and lasted almost 8 years. By the mid-spring of 1931 there were almost constant dust storms and millions of hectares of fertile topsoil blew away.

What is the "Drought of the Prairies"?
100

Prime Minister Mackenzie King's belief that the Canadian government should not give unemployment benefits to provincial governments in Canada. The speech made King seem out of touch with the hardships of ordinary people and helped the Conservative opposition gain support.

What is the "Five Cent Speech"?
200
He was the 11th Prime minister of Canada, Leader of the Conservative Party.
Who is Richard Bedford Bennett.
200
To boost the Canadian economy in the 1930s, this party gave $20 million for work-creation programs and imposed high taxes by 50% on imported good during the Depression.
What is the Conservative Party?
200
After travelling, unemployed men would stay a day or two in many "shanty towns" that sprung up in around the cities.
What was called jungles?
200

 Whilliam Aberhart publicized the social credit theory on this program weekly radio program.  He promised each citizen a "basic dividend" of $25 a month to buy necessities.

What was the "Voices of the Prairies"?
200

Under the leadership of their union, the Relief Camp Workers Union, men 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 was called "on trek to Ottawa"?
300
He was a Liberal elected in BC government in 1933. He promised voters a "Little New Deal" based on the New Deal is the US.
Who is Dufferin Pattulo?
300
The party supported social programs such as social assistance and publicaly funded health care. It also appealed to a wide variety of Canadians.
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)?
300
Its government relief payamnets given to those who had no alternative source of income during the Depression.
What is "pogey"?
300

It's a large triangular shaped region in the Prairie Provinces of Western Canada that was determined to be unsuitable for agriculture because of its unfavourable climate.  The semi-arid conditions, however, initially made this area difficult to farm.

What is Palliser's Triangle?
300

Richard Bedford Bennett promised more progressive taxation, unemployment insurance, health insurance, closer regulation of working conditions and social reforms through this.

What was the "New Deal"?
400
He was a Liberal leader who won wide support championing the causes of the "little man". He came into power in 1934.
Who is Mitch Hepburn?
400
It was a party based on the belief that capitalism was a wasteful economic system preventing customers from using their money and buying goods that capitalism produced.
What is the Social Credit ?
400
During the boom years of the 1920s, many Canadians purchased items on credit.
What is "Buy now, pay later"?
400

During the Depression there were swarms of these insects that descended on the Prairies, eating entire fields and even farm implements and household items. Fields of corn or alfalfa or oats could be destroyed in hours. They would eat anything.

What was the Plague of the Grasshoppers?
400

In August 1937, the federal government created the Royal Commission on Federal-Provincial Relations. Its first chair was Ontario Chief Justice N.W. Rowell.

What was the "Rowell-Sirois Commission"?

500
He was a former Conservative who brought a newly formed party called Union Nationale into power in 1936 in Quebec.
Who is Maurice Duplessis?
500
It was a nationalistic French-Canadian party that relied on the support of the Roman Catholic church and rural voters.
What is the Union Nationale Party?
500
Many Canadians bought stocks with a small down payment and a large loan hoping to make a big profit.
What was "Buying on the Margin"?
500

This Act was established by an Act of Parliament under Prime Minister R. B. Bennett in 1935 in response to the widespread drought, farm abandonment and land degradation of the 1930s.

What is the " Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act "?

500

It was the programme of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was adopted at the first national convention of the CCF held in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1933.

What was the Regina Manifesto?