Causes
The founder and first leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party, which believed the Great Depression was caused by ordinary people not having enough to spend.
Who was William Aberhart?
The Depression hit the entire country, but conditions in the prairie provinces were particularly severe.
During the depression, where did it hit the country the hardest?
In the early 1920's.
What year did Buying-on-Credit begin to boom?
Mackenzie King's "Five Cent Speech" was about King's belief that the Canadian government should not give unemployment benefits to provincial governments in Canada with Conservative leadership. The speech made King seem out of touch with the hardships of ordinary people and helped the Conservative opposition gain support.
What was the Five Cent Speech?
When you borrow more money then you can afford in order to buy more stocks.
What is buying on margin?
Penniless, they traveled across the country by ¨hopping¨ freight trains, some even riding on the roof or clung to the rods underneath the train. This was called Riding-the-Rods.
How did citizens travel across the country?
A payment to a state, province or individual from the federal government for the purpose of offsetting monetary imbalances between different parts of the country or between individuals.
What is an Equalization payment?
it was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s.
When and by whom was the New Deal established?
the result of when companies produce more products than consumers are willing to buy.
What is over population?
at some places of business, "relief pay" is what you receive for doing another person's job, assuming that person is paid at a higher rate than you.
What were relief payments?
An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
What is The League of Nations?
they were designed for unemployed, single men.
Who were work camps designed for?
resulted in banks went bankrupt
What happened to the United States banks after the Stock Market crash?
A place where the less fortunate or homeless go where free food is served.
What is a soup kitchen?
A place where prisoners were sent to be sentenced to labor, especially to outdoor labor such as road building or farming.
What is a work camp?
it was a long journey where thousands of unemployed men protested the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.
What was "On-to-Ottawa-trek" and who carried it out?
what the president at the time thought would happen to the economy is they did nothing. He thought the economy would go down if they didn't do anything because the economy tends to go up and then back down, etc.
What is Herbert Hoover?
he pushed 15 major laws through in his "First Hundred Days" of office.
How many laws did President Roosevelt push?
was the culmination of months of protests as thousands of unemployed men moved across the country in what became known at the "On To Ottawa Trek."
What was the Regina Riot?
formed in the West in 1932 which supported social programs such as income assistance, and publicly funded health care to help those in need.
What was the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)