the great depression

Question 1

what’s the causes of the great depression?

Answer 1

-people were relying on credit
-the stock market crashed, people lost their investments and their money
-banks closed as people withdrawn all their money

Question 2

reasons for the stock market crash

Answer 2

Overproduction
Resource based economy
Canada’s dependence on the United States
Relying on Credit
Buying stocks on Credit

Question 3

whats the cause for the drought in the prairies?

Answer 3

-Companies plowed the fields to make room for new crops
-Doing so eliminated the deep-rooted native prairie grasses
-the overflowed farmland had no anchor to the each, causing soils to blow off of the fields

Question 4

whats the dust bowl?

Answer 4

its the area they plowed, where crops were lost, and the soil reduced to dust.

Question 5

riding the rails

Answer 5

-men were unemployed and extremely poor
-They would ride in empty freight cars or hitchhike along highways in hope that there would be work on the next farm.

Question 6

relief camps

Answer 6

Government would set up camps in some parts of the country for men that needed shelter and food ex

Question 7

what happened in relief camps?

Answer 7

-inmates would work 8 hours 6 days a week building roads, dug ditches and planted trees
- Each worker received clothes, a bed, food and 20 cents a day.

Question 8

R.B bennet

Answer 8

R.B. Bennett became Prime Minister in the 1930 election after defeating Mackenzie King