unit 2 1930s

Question 1

reasons of the depressions

Answer 1

stock market crash

overproduction

canada’s reliance on exporting staple products

dependence on the USA

economic protection and tariffs

international debt after WWI

Question 2

recession

Answer 2

decline in the economy
lower levels of employment
low levels of production

Question 3

depressions

Answer 3

severe economy decline
high unemployment
long period of time

Question 4

recovery

Answer 4

when an economy recovers from a recession

Question 5

prosparity

Answer 5

AN ECONOMIC STATE OF GROWTH
high profits
full employment

Question 6

deficit

Answer 6

government spends more than it makes

aka debt

Question 7

inflation

Answer 7

prices increase

Question 8

supply and demand

Answer 8

supply is the amount of goods
demand is the desire of the goods

high supply when demand is high

Question 9

laissez faire

Answer 9

belief that the government should not intervene in economic affairs

Question 10

riding the rails

Answer 10

travelling the country hopping on and off trains in search of work

causing hobo jungles

Question 11

dust bowl

Answer 11

praries were hit hard during the depression
high climate = drought = dust
grasshoppers thrived

Question 12

prairie farm rehabilitation administration act

Answer 12

helped farmers build irrigation systems and reservoirs to avoid future dust bowls

Question 13

pogey/dole

Answer 13

food stamps

similar to welfare

Question 14

PM king said depressions was ….

Answer 14

a provincial/municipal problem

Question 15

due to PM king’s response RB bennett

Answer 15

a conservative millionaire lawyer won

Question 16

RB bennett’s response to the depression

Answer 16

20 million to provinces for work creation programs

unemployment relief camps (worst than jail conditions and men did labour for cheap pay)

raise tariffs

Question 17

in 1935 canadians felt..

Answer 17

that the government would play a larger role in the public’s lives like the communism societies

Question 18

RB bennett’s New Deal

Answer 18

progressive taxation
max hours in a work week
minimal wage
strong regulations and working conditions
employment insurance
health and accident insurance
old age pension plan
agricultural support

aka social safety net

Question 19

canadians reaction to RB bennett’s New Deal

Answer 19

too little too late

1935 men left the BC interior work camps –> vancouver = relief camp workers union

Question 20

canadians reaction to RB bennett’s New Deal

ottawa trek

Answer 20

relief camp workers union went on freight trains to ottowa for real jobs and work with wages

RCMP stopped them in regina and only the leaders went to ottowa

Question 21

canadians reaction to RB bennett’s New Deal
ottawa trek
regina riot

Answer 21

3 hour fight
one RCMP was beaten to death

1935 king won the federal election

Question 22

CCF and their leader

Answer 22

socialist
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
leader: JS Woodsworth

includes
farmers
labourers
socialists
intellectuals
discontented liberals

Question 23

CCF’s regina manifesto

Answer 23

public ownership of industries
support of social programs
money spent on public works to form jobs

forerunner to the NDP

Question 24

in alberta = SOCIAL CREDIT PARTY

Answer 24

capitalism = wasteful economic system which hoard money and prevented customers from buying abundant goods

william aberhart (bible bill) was the leader

promis 25$ a month to buy necessities

Question 25

Rowell-Sirois commission

Answer 25

federal gov’t control taxes

poorer provinces = equalization payment to ensure uniform living across canada