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Before The Depression
100
This was a nickname for the depression.
What is the dirty 30s?
100
The group who made the Persons Case
Who were the Famous Five?
100
The Market crashed due to investors selling.
What happened to the Stock market?
100
Date of the most famous stock market crash in history.
What Happened on October 29th 1929?
100
when the government of Canada had to Prohibit alcohol during the 1920's. This is because of the temperance movement
What is Prohibition?
200
This was a speech given by the prime minister Mackenzie King in the late 1920s
What is the five cent speech?
200
The prime minister who made the five cent speech.
Who was Mackenzie King?
200
at the beginning of the 1920s people became wealthy witch caused the businesses to make more stuff witch people were not buying therefore causing businesses to lay off workers.
how did overproduction contribute to the depression?
200
the Five Cent speech was delivered by Mackenzie King
what happened on the 5th of February 1930?
200
This act was put in effect by the Canadian government. It stopped the Chinese form immigrating into Canada.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
This was what they called what men did in the thirties who hopped trains.
What is riding the rails?
300
The 11th prime minister who made the new deal.
who is R.B. Bennett
300
The Canadian economy was heavily reliant on the sale of products such as wheat, fish, minerals, and pulp and paper to customers around the world. When other countries began to sell the same products, prices fell and the Canadian economy suffered.
How did dependency on few resources contribute to the depression?
300
the CBC began
what happened on November 2nd 1936
300
She accomplished the transatlantic flight.
What did Emilia Earhart accomplish in 1928
400
Over a thousand men left the camps in the interior of British Columbia in protest against camp conditions in a union. The men decided to take their complaints to Ottawa. They crowded into and on top of freightcars and headed east to complain to Prime Minister Bennett in person.
What is the term On To Ottawa Trek?
400
a pioneer in the Canadian social democratic movement. Following more than two decades ministering to the poor and the working class.
Who was J.S. Woodsworth?
400
Many Canadians bought stocks on margin in the hope they could make a quick profit when prices went up. and when they went down they went way down
How did buying on margin contribute to the depression?
400
The statue of Westminister was made
what happened on december 11th 1931
400
it was an unusually deadly pandemic. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population
What was the Spanish flu?
500
This was based on the idea that capitalism was a wasteful system because banks hoarded money preventing people from buying the goods that capitalism made. They they thought the way to ease the Depression was for the government to put money in people’s pockets. This was disallowed by the supreme court.
What is a Social Credit Party?
500
people who were unhappy with the work camps rid the rails to Winnipeg to protest.
Who were the One Big Union?
500
"buy now, pay later" was the motto. When the economy stalled, many people lost their jobs and were unable to make their payments.
How did buying on credit contribute to the depression?
500
October 18th 1929
when was the persons case decided?
500
It started with the pairs peace conference and then ended the first world war with 42 founding members It was supposed to keep peace but fell at the beginning of the second world war.
What was the League of nations?