The "Five-Cent Piece Speech" took place during this year.
What is 1930?
100
Illegally travelling on trains by hanging on to the roof, under rails or in empty cars - men did this to look for work.
What is riding the rails (or rods)?
100
The value of the vouchers from this program was so low people ended up suffering from disease and starvation.
What is pogey?
200
The Stock Exchange crashed on this day, which is also known as "Black Tuesday".
What is October 29, 1929?
200
Investors buy on market, the stock rises quickly in value, and then investors sell, repay their loan, and make money.
What is Speculation?
200
This part of Canada was affected most by the depression.
What is the Prairie Region?
300
This is the year the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act was created.
What is 1935?
300
Government looks after the well-being of its citizens, education health, unemployment, benefits, and social assistance.
What is a Welfare State?
300
This caused Canada to not be able to sell wheat to the USA, making farmers suffer.
What is economic protectionism and tariffs?
300
Because of this, politicians and business leaders assumed recession would correct itself.
What is the understanding of the business cycle?
400
On this date, a thousand unhappy relief camp workers boarded trains in Vancouver to head to Ottawa to ask for "work with wages".
What is June 1935?
500
William Lyon Mackenzie King was prime minister during these years.
What is 1921 - 1930 and 1935 - 1948?
500
These are the six main causes of the depression.
What is over production, Canadian dependence on USA, Canadian reliance on exporting staple products, the stock market crash, economic protectionism, and international debt after WW1?
500
Because of this reaction, Keynes theory was supported, and the New Deal was created in 1933 as well as work programs and the Social security Act which helped millions survive.
What is President Roosevelt's reaction to the depression?