What is an economy that is depended on natural resources?
100
During the election of 1930 this was the "only" issue
What is unemployment?
100
The day when the New York Stock exchange collapsed
What is Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)?
100
One of the Prairies hardship in farming that is not the eight year drought, dust storms or the fungus known as rust
What is a plague of Grasshoppers?
100
an automobile pulled by a horse
What is Bennett Buggy?
200
Bennett used these "taxes" to make import more expensive
What is tariff?
200
The slogan Mackenzie King use in 1935, winning the election
What is "King or Chaos"?
200
The birth of these five kids of poor parents in Ontario became a tourist attraction and a perfect distraction
What is Dionne Quintuplets?
200
Young homeless men looking for work in the country by these kind of travel of hopping into the freight trains
What is riding the rods?
200
Unemployed men often gathered in these areas to live and support each other.
What is Jungles?
300
One of the main reasons for the depression as Canada relied too heavy on the USA as a trading partner (when USA unemployment rose so did Canada's)
What is dependence on the USA?
300
The Prime Minister in the Great Depression who promised a solution for the financial problems Canada was facing
What is R. B. Bennett?
300
A riot in Regina during On-to-Ottawa trek, where the RCMP battled the trekkers for two hours resulting in one death and one hundred and thirty arrested
What is Regina Riot?
300
The hardest hit area in the Great Depression for farming
What is Palliser Triangle?
300
A period in time of the Great Depression where there were constant dust storms and millions of hectares of fertile soil blew away
What is Dust Bowl?
400
A way that made overproduction easy in the thirty and the way was also invented by Henry Ford
What is an assembly line?
400
A political ideology that Bennett fear Canada would fall under the influence as number of young, jobless and homeless men increased
What is Communism?
400
An act that the Government passed in 1935 to help farmers build irrigation systems and reservoirs
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act?
400
A type of welfare that applicants would receive vouchers for food if they had nothing of value and was homeless; Obtaining the vouchers was very humiliating
What is pogey?
400
Broadcasting program that the Federal Government created was both in French which was popular in Quebec and English which wasn't popular anywhere in Canada
What is Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)?
500
The motto in the 1920 that meant one could buy items on credit and one of the reasons Canadian fell into debt
What is "buy now pay later"
500
A political party that some Canadians turned to for solutions against the depression that was formed in Alberta and led by William Aberhart. This party had a "spend your way out of the Depression" attitude
What is Social Credit?
500
A protest that Canadian decided to take to Ottawa about Bennett's dead-end approach to dealing with unemployment (like Work Camps)
What is the On-to-Ottawa Trek?
500
Camps created by the Government that were located in the deep woods for dead end jobs that had horrible working conditions; The worker only got paid twenty cents a day plus room and board
What is Work Camps?
500
The group who lead the On-to-Ottawa Trek to give work camps shorter hours and better living conditions; the union leaders were called by Bennett, the Prime Minister at the time, "radicals and trouble makers"