Stock Market
The date the stock market crashed.
What is Tuesday, October 29th, 1929?
The percentage of unemployed working class during the Great Depression.
What is approximately 25%?
Name given to the extreme droughts and dust storms the prairies experienced during this time.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The leader of the Union Nationale
What is Maurice Duplessis
Young men would ride on top of, below holding on to rails or in empty cars on trains in order to get a free ride.
What is "riding the rails"
Military-like camps that gave jobs to the unemployed to work on public projects
What are Unemployment Relief Camps?
the country that had the most social and economic impact on Canada
What is the United States of America
Government aid given in form of food vouchers
What is "pogey"
The purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker.
What is Buying on Margin.
The action many unhappy relief camp workers took to seek better wages and the ultimate event that broke out.
What is On-to-Ottawa Trek that resulted in the Regina Riot?
Canada's main exports that were experiencing a drop in profit.
What were wheat, newsprint, timber, and minerals?
The speech given by PM. King that didn't support aid for unemployment within the provinces.
What is "five cent speech"
A major severe weather event that affected the Southeastern United States on April 20, 1920. At least seven tornadoes affected the American U.S. states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, six of them rated violent F4 on the Fujita scale.
What is The April 1920 tornado outbreak.
A deal that purposed progressive taxation,max. number of hours in a work week, minimum wage,old age pension, health and accidental insurance, agriculture support and regulate wheat prices.
What is Prime Minister Bennett's New Deal
Automobile pulled by a horse
What is a "Bennett buggy"
The steps that led to the stock market crash.
Stock prices increase so investors sell their stock for profit, others follow suit and stock prices begin to fall, panic ensues while everyone attempts to sell all their stocks, prices plummet and the stock market crashes and many people go bankrupt.