20s and 30s

Question 1

what is a branch plant

Answer 1

us factories in canada to make for canadian market

Question 2

pros and cons of branch plants

Answer 2

jobs, investment in canadian infrastructure, profits go to US, canadian autonomy undermined

Question 3

william lyon mackenzie king

Answer 3

takes liber party after dead laurier, good compromiser (doesn’t take sides)

Question 4

arthur meighen

Answer 4

takes conservative party after borden resigns

Question 5

progressive party

Answer 5

prairie based party frustrated with central canada

Question 6

1925 election

Answer 6

king makes a coalition party to boot out meighen after getting less votes

Question 7

byng king crisis

Answer 7

liberals caught in corruption, king asks byng for election, byng asks meighen to be pm, meighen falls in 3 days, king accuses byng of taking orders from london

Question 8

hunter-gatherer economy

Answer 8

hunt gather and share everything

Question 9

agrarian feudalism

Answer 9

bottom 90% work to keep 10% well happy

Question 10

industrial capitalism economy

Answer 10

poeple with money exploit people without money, profiting

Question 11

communism

Answer 11

state exploits labour of everyone, public ownership & equality sort of

Question 12

what causes an economy to shrink

Answer 12

people spend less, businesses make less & lay people off, people with jobs can’t spend…

Question 13

4 causes of the great depression

Answer 13

buying on credit, overproduction, layoffs, low standard of living

Question 14

government response to start of great depression

Answer 14

laissez-faire because most of the time governments made it worse

Question 15

r. b. bennet

Answer 15

beat king and wanted to raise tariffs, and spend on building, epic fail. then he tried a canadian new deal but it was lame

Question 16

New Deal

Answer 16

roosevelt to put government into debt and build things, bringing US out of depression, and it worked

Question 17

cooperative commonwealth confederation

Answer 17

j j woodsworth, supported private property but big things should be owned by the government

Question 18

social credit party

Answer 18

william aberhart, wanted to give $25 to every adult every month, federally vetoed

Question 19

union nationale

Answer 19

maurice duplessis, quebec party promising higher wages, government owned hydroelectricity, had corruption

Question 20

communist party

Answer 20

tim buck, wanted to overthrow government, blamed capitalism, arrested & imprisoned

Question 21

persons case

Answer 21

supreme court ruled that women were not persons based on the BNA so could not be in the senate

initiated by famous five 1929

Question 22

1920s americanization of canadian economy

Answer 22

american investment in canada increased, branch plants established due to tariffs

Question 23

canadian art and culture 1920s

Answer 23

group of seven, bluenose (boat racing), sports expanding to the US (NHL)

Question 24

cultures that emerged in the 1920s

Answer 24

jazz, dancing, flappers

Question 25

20s new tech

Answer 25

radio, cars, flight improvements

Question 26

on to ottawa trek

Answer 26

1935
relief camp workers went on strike and went on trains to ottawa to protest bennett, government feared communist revolution so stopped it in regina

Question 27

work relief camps

Answer 27

1932 established by bennett for unemployed that did useless work for 20 cents per day, really due to communism

Question 28

st louis incident

Answer 28

1939 MS st louis with 907 jewish refugees got denied

Question 29

inflation cycle

Answer 29

more demand, more produce, more hires…

Question 30

recession cycle

Answer 30

less money, less demand, less production, less profit, layoffs…

Question 31

economic growth cycle

Answer 31

more jobs, more money, more demand, more production, more profit..

Question 32

when was the stock market crash

Answer 32

October 28 1929