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Economy
The 20s
Exclusion
100
Producing more than there was a realistic demand for
What is overproduction?
100
A period of extreme economic and social hardship, massive unemployment and terrible suffering.
What is the Depression?
100
Inflation
What is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time?
100
The Roaring 20s
What is the name for this period of time?
100
Residential Schools
What is one of the Canadian government's ways of forced assimilation?
200
Buying stocks with a small down payment and a big loan
What is buying on margin?
200
When American factories shut down, and unemployment rose, demand for Canadian products dropped.
What is dependence on the American economy?
200
Economic Depression
What is a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies?
200
Your neighbours would eavesdrop
What is the telephone line (party line)?
200
The Chinese Exclusion Act
What is another way of discrimination on people by the Canadian government?
300
"Buy now, pay later"
What is buying on credit?
300
Many countries placed tariffs on imported goods. Tariffs made Canadian products more expensive and harder to sell in other countries
What is protectionism?
300
The Group of Seven
What is the Canadian art movement?
300
Africa and Eastern Europe
What is the other groups that were discriminated against?
400
The cause of the wheat market's collapse
What is drought?
400
1933, with 25% of Canadians unemployed, homeless, and very poor
What is the height of the Depression?
400
Increased demand for hydro-electric power
What is a result of the expansion of forest and mining industries?
400
Hockey came into homes in 1923
What is the year hockey became popular?
400
Provided seperate schools for "blacks" and "Europeans"
What is the Education Act of 1918
500
Heavily reliant on the sale of products such as wheat, fish, minerals, and pulp and paper to customers around the world
What is the Canadian economy at the time?
500
Government relief payments given to those how had no alternative source of income
What is "pogey?"
500
The United States
What is the country Canada traded with the most after the war?
500
These people missed out on on opportunities such as the right to vote and got placed into residential schools and were mistreated
What is the Aboriginals of Canada?
500
1924
What is the year the Edmonton City Council attempted to ban African-Americans from public parks and city pools?