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Five Cent speech
What speech given by the Prime minister William Mackenzie further angered the poor in Canada?
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A large factor in starting the depression due to outrageous expenditures
What was the Great War?
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They were left hungry, unemployed and desperate
How did the depression affect the people opf Canada
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The Prime Minister angered the Canadians in poverty, giving them the idea that he cared not for their suffering
What is the Five cent speech
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Work Camps
What was Canada's way of employing the unemployed with cheap manual Labour
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This event is regarded as possibly the start of worldwide poverty
what is Black tuesday
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An uneven impact affected various social classes seperately
What was unfair about the depression?
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A variety of political reform movements
What spawned from the depression?
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Formed in the West in 1932, which supported social programs such as income assistance, and publicly funded health care to help those in need.
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
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High Tariffs
What did Bennet impose in search of an economic upturn in trade?
300
This market, when it crashed, caused the depression
What is the Wall street Stock Market
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1/3 of Canada's national income comes from trade
What was/has been affected by the great depression and also helped cause it
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a Québec political party founded in 1935 and dissolved in 1989. The party won six provincial elections between 1936 and 1966.
What is the Unione Nationale
300
based on the belief that capitalism was a wasteful economic system because under capitalism, banks hoarded money, preventing customers from buying the abundant goods that capitalism produced.
What is the Social Credit Party
400
High tariffs only caused other countries to counter with high tariffs, not providing a solution.
Did the high tariffs work as a solution?
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The Failure of this crop also sparked an economic downturn
What is Wheat?
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66% of rural population relied on this
What is government relief
400
This decade led to a long struggle for the people of Canada and economic down turn
What is The Great Depression
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The government spent morwe than 20 million dollars on this in an attempt to create employment
What is the Work Creation Programs
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Bennett's reforms promised a more progressive taxation system, a maximum work week, a minimum wage, closer regulation of working conditions, unemployment insurance, health and accident insurance, a revised old-age pension and agricultural support programs.
What was the "New Deal"
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Less than 30%
What is the labour force unemployment rate
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These people bore the brunt of the economic downturn.
What are farmers, business men and labourors
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balanced budget, a sound dollar and changes in the trade tariff would allow the private marketplace to bring about recovery
What was common economists belief towards resolving the depression
500
¨One of the greatest assets a man can have on entering life's stuggle is poverty.¨ was said by this man
Who is R.B. Bennet