1930s/ Great Depression

Question 1

When and what was Black Tuesday

Answer 1

October 29,1929
Signaled the end of the post-war prosperity. On this day 16 million shares were sold on the New York stock market. Soon the value of the stock market shares had decreased by $30 million and thousand of people lost their life savings. After this gene those with money were fearful about the future and reluctant to spend. Without customers stores and factories were soon closing all over North America.

Question 2

What is the stock market

Answer 2

This period of prosperity was built on credit (but now pay later) and the need to supply Europe with exports and s it rebuilt after WW1

Question 3

What were the six causes of the Great Depression

Answer 3

• over production
• declining exports and tariffs
• drought in the west
• stock market crash
• government policies
• over extended bank credit

Question 4

Define the great depression

Answer 4

a long and severe recession in an economy or market

Question 5

Who was the prime minister during most of the Great Depression

Answer 5

R.B Bennet

Question 6

What is a bennet buggy

Answer 6

Horse and carriage

Question 7

What is a bennet blanket

Answer 7

Newspaper

Question 8

What is a bennet barnyard

Answer 8

An abandoned farm

Question 9

Who was the Cinderella man

Answer 9

Jim Braddock, American boxer

Question 10

What was riding the rails and when

Answer 10

A strike was organized in Vancouver 1935 and to get there men across Canada rode the rials. The strike was ran by relief camp workers

Question 11

What was the Regina riot

Answer 11

While men were riding the rails on way to Ottawa they were stopped in Regina by the RCMP and a riot begun. 45 injured one cop dead

Question 12

What was the trek to Ottawa

Answer 12

After the strike in Vancouver ended thousands of strikers went to Ottawa to vote in hopes of changing wages

Question 13

What were relief camps

Answer 13

Government opened unemployment relief camps where in exchange for room and board single men did physically demanding labour

• Run like military
• strict
• workers wanted real work and wages

Question 14

Who was the hardest hit during the depression

Answer 14

Farmers
Young people
Unskilled labourers
Small business people

Question 15

What is the palliser triangle

Answer 15

An area by Cartwright, Manitoba, Lloyd Minister, Saskatchewan, Calgary and Alberta. This area become down as the dustbowl

Question 16

What’s the dust bowl

Answer 16

A region left arid by drought and dust storms, as in the prairies during the 1930s