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The start of the great depression, occurring on October 29th 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
a popular movie created in the 1930's depicting a witch and a woman named Dorothy famous for her ruby red slippers.
what is the Wizard of Oz?
200
taxes placed on imported and exported goods during the depression.
what were tariffs?
200
a struggle on the prairies throughout the great depression.
what were the prairie hardships?
200
men began to hop on freight trains and look for employment. they would stay in small shanty towns known as jungles.
what was "riding the rods"?
200
often known as Bonfire Bennett. Prime Minister throughout the Grear depression.
who was R.B. Bennett?
200
created in 1936 in order to gain Canadian viewers, a company that produced shows in French and English.
what is the Canadian Broadcasting Coorperation (CBC) ?
300
Overproduction, high tariffs, credit, buying on margin, loss of employment and Canada's Dependence on the USA.
what were the main causes of the depression?
300
constant dust storms that destroyed all fertile soil on farms in the prairies.
what were Dust Bowls?
300
he thought that unemployment at the time was only temporary and was the only issue of the election of the time.
who was prime minister Mackenzie King?
300
workers protests erupted into a riot in Regina Saskatchewan.
what was the casue of 1 death and 130 arrests in Regina 1935?
300
born in 1934 in Ontario, Canada these siblings were used as a tourist attraction and in movies/commercials as endorsement for products.
who were the Dionne Quintuplets?
400
known as "the dole" of the time, welfare during the Depression.
what is "pogey"?
400
a fungus that attacked wheat and grain on farms during the depression, causing great loss of production.
what was known as "rust"?
400
work camps created by building roads and clearing land for those who were unemployed. workers were paid 20 cents a day.
what were relief camps?
400
by 1935 voters were fed up with Bennett and his polices and inability to deal with the current crisis.
why was Mackenzie King returned back to power?
500
hardest hit area during the depression consisting of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
what was the Palliser Triangle?
500
governments decided they should help farmers whom were effected by a drought passing a law to help farmers build irrigation systems.
what was the Prairie farm rehab act?
500
the beginning of a movement to protest the unfair working conditions in hopes of appeasement from government in Ottowa.
what was the "on to Ottawa trek"? 
500
an organization created by workers who were placed in relief camps by the government.
what was the Relief Camp Workers Union?