People found all sorts of places to get money to buy stocks
What is a loan?
100
People had to wait in line for hours and say they were broke and had been evicted to get support
What was government relief?
100
In a speech to Canadians, Prime Minister McKenzie King said that social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces
What was the 5 Cent Speech?
100
J.S. Woodsworth lead a party in Canada that called for broad social programs and public health care
What was the CCF?
200
Businesses produced too many products
Why was there a slow down in production
200
People buying stocks didn't pay the full price of the stock
What is a margin?
200
If you could provide proof of poverty or eviction you could get help with food
What were food stamps?
200
As the Depression continued, Canadians didn't believe that Prime Minister McKenzie King cared about their suffering.
What was McKenzie King defeated?
200
Premier of Alberta, William Aberhart won a landslide victory in Alberta in 1935 saying that capitalism was a wasteful economic system
What was Social Credit?
300
Laid off workers had much less to spend
What was a consequence of the economy slowing down
300
Investors started to sell their stocks when prices went sky high
What started the crash?
300
By mid spring of 1931, dust storms blew away millions of hectares of prairie topsoil
What was the Great Drought?
300
Unemployed men worked in groups out in the country on projects like building roads, clearing land and digging ditches for pennies an hour.
What were work camps
300
The party that called for social programs and publicly funded health care also called for government ownership of some businesses and for government spending on public works
What was the Regina Manifesto?
400
In the late 1920s other countries started to produce the same products as Canada
What is competition?
400
When the price of stocks started to fall dramatically, people, especially those who had bought on margin, panicked
What caused the mass sell off?
400
Many young, homeless and jobless men travelled across the country by riding freight trains.
What was "riding the rods"?
400
Prime Minister Bennett developed an elaborate plan to provide help for those who needed it.
What was the New Deal in Canada?
400
The provincial Liberal Party came to power in Ontario in 1934. Their leader stood up for the causes of "little men"
Who was Mitch Hepburn?
500
As other countries entered the market selling the same products as Canada, the Canadian economy worsened even more
What was the consequence of competition?
500
After the stock market crash, economic conditions were much worse, there was huge unemployment and some people lost everything.
What was the Great Depression
500
Homeless and jobless men ended up in many major cities staying in temporary tent camps.
What were "jungles"?
500
In 1935, unemployed men decided to complain about work camp conditions directly to the Prime Minister
What was the On to Ottawa Trek
500
In B.C. Premier Duff Patullo believed in shorter work hours, and increase in the minimum wage and increases in welfare payments.