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October 29th 1929.
What is the stock market crash?
100
Main form of transportation for the homeless and jobless.
What is hopping trains.
100
The reason Mackenzie King lost the election to R.B. Bennett.
What is the 5 Cent Speech?
100
The Liberal Government.
What is the party Mackenzie King belonged to?
100
In 1935 regained power.
Who is Mackenzie King?
200
A tax imposed on inputs and/or outputs into a country.
What is a tarriff?
200
Unemployed, single men recieved 20 cents a day and room and board.
What are work camps?
200
The 1935 protest against work camps led by the relief camp workers union.
What is the "on to Ottawa trek"?
200
R.B Bennetts party.
Who are the Conservatives?
200
They recommended King concentrate spending on work camps, which King did not.
What is the National Employment Commission?
300
Stocks bought in hopes of making a lot of money when prices are high using a loan.
What is buying on margin?
300
Government relief payments given to those with no income.
What is a pogey?
300
R.B. Bennett feared this party would come into power.
What is the communist party?
300
Popular in Alberta, their platform was that the government would put money into peoples for them to spend.
What is the Social Credit Party?
300
Recommended taxes, employment insurance, and equalization payments.
What is the Rowell-Sirois Commission?
400
These ruined crops and bankrupt farmers.
What are droughts?
400
A set of programs and policies to promote economic recovery.
What is the New Deal?
400
Trekkers were stopped here and detained by the RCMP.
What is Regina?
400
Blamed English people in Quebec for Quebec's bad economy.
What is the Union Nationale?
400
Increased unemployment rates rapidly.
What is World War II?
500
These led to factories laying off workers and slowing production.
What are stockpiled goods?
500
Built reservoirs and irrigation systems to help combat drought damage in 1935.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act?
500
The Prime Minister refused to see the leaders of the relief camp workers union and these ensued.
What are riots?
500
Supported social programs, like income assistance and was a socialist party.
What is the CCF (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation)?
500
Shortened work days, hightened minimum wage, and hightened relief payments by 20% in BC.
What is the "Little New Deal"?