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Black Tuesday
What day the stock market crashed called?
100
The Prime Minister who gave the famous five-cent speech.
Who is Prime Minister Mackenzie King?
100
The weather pattern that blew millions of hectares of topsoil away.
What are dust storms?
100
The cause that made too much inventory, which lead to slowed production and laid off workers.
What is overproduction?
100
25 percent of Canadians were unemployed, homeless or poor.
What percent of Canadians were unemployed, homeless or poor?
200
Represented by the motto "buy now, pay later".
What is buying on credit?
200
The commission to study the issue of federal-provincial relations, also providing Canadians with economic assistance.
What is the Rowell-Sirois Commission?
200
The phenomena that stalled vehicles, clogged radiators and almost choked a dental patient to death.
What is the plague of grasshoppers?
200
The phrase referring to people hopping freight trains moving from town to town to look for work.
What is Riding the Rods?
200
The government relief payments given to those with no alternative souurce of income.
What is the pogey?
500
The tarrifs on imported goods that slowed the economy down, making Canadian products more expensive and less desirable.
What is protectionism?
500
A political group formed in the west that supported social programs. Led by J.S. Woodsworth, it has now become the NDP.
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)?
500
The government act that helped farmers rebuild irrigation systems and reservoirs to the remaining farmers who were not forced to leave their farms.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act?
500
The movement to complain to the Prime Minister in person to seek better wages from relief camp workers.
What is the On to Ottawa Trek?
500
The name of the shanty towns that sprang up in cities as men rode the rods.
What are Jungles?