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1934
What year was the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation formed
100
the way many Canadians purchased things
What is credit
100
Where unemployed, single men were hired to do projects in the woods
What are work camps
100
Unemployed, homeless and desperately poor
What is 25% of all Canadians
100
When young men and unemployed workers rode the trains looking for work
What is riding the rods
200
Forerunner of the NDP
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
200
small down payment and big loan
What is margin
200
The union where workers from camps protested
What is Relief Camp Workers Union
200
Group of people that weren't affected much
What is Middle Class
200
Shanty, gypsy towns that sprung up in cities
What are "jungles"
300
Mackinzie King stated he wouldn't give a nickel to any province non-liberal
What is Five-Cent speech
300
Wheat, fish, minerals and pulp.
What are primary products?
300
One man was killed, and many injured at a stadium in Regina.
What is the Regina Riot
300
Government relief payments given to those with no alternative source of income.
What is "pogey"
300
Caused millions of hectares of topsoil to blow away in the Praries
What is dust storms
400
R.B. Bennett
What is the elected leader of the Conservative party during the depression
400
Made Canadian products very hard to sell in other countries.
What are tarrifs
400
Commission with many regards to unemployment insurance and equalization payments.
What is Rowell Sirois Commission
400
Items given to poor people from government
What is food vouchers
400
Plagued praries, stalling busses and trains and almost choking one man
What are grasshoppers
500
Bennet's elaborate plan to help people in need
What is "New Deal"
500
Result of everybody selling their stocks at once.
What is stock-market crash
500
Commission where job-creating and training were highly suggested actions
What is National Employment Commission
500
Large market collapse in prairies that made families struggle to survive
What is wheat market
500
Helped farmers build irrigation systems and resevoirs
What is Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act