unit two: great depression Flashcards
Causes Of Great Depression
- Drought
- Tariffs
- Overproduction/little demand
- Canadian dependence on US
Black Tuesday (dates + meaning)
October 29th, 1929
Stock Market Crash (30 BILLION decrease)
(Hardships) - Relief
Food or Relief vouchers called doles
Family relief
(Hardships) - Impact On Families
Negative: increased domestic abuse, wanted divorces, sent children away, familial abandonment
Positive: increased bonding in communities + family
(Hardships) - Riding The Rails
People heard of jobs that were far away
- people jumped onto trains to ride there
(Hardships) - Relief Camps
Army run camps
- provided food + board + work
- young single unemployed men
- keep trouble away
(Hardships) - On-To-Ottawa Track
- relief camp workers strike
- comendeered freight trains, headed to Ottawa (PM)
- peaceful demonstration turned violent (many died) - > faliure
(Hardships) - Immigration
- immigration + birth rates plummeted
- more trouble for immigrants
(Politics) - Mackenzie King (first term)
- believed depression was temp + part of cycle
- prime minister (two terms -> re-elected)
(Politics) - R.B Bennett
- conservative leader (PM (1930-35) )
- promise to importe economy
- truly did nothing
- Bennet-Isms
(Great Escape) - Movies
- happily ever after -> strengthened traditional values
- Disney + cartoon + fantasy
- tons of fiction
(Great Escape) - Radio
Music, dramas, comedy, radio movies
(Great Escape) - Quintuplets
Ontario government took quintuplets from parents (first survivors) -> put them in zoo like facility
End Of Depression
1938
Start Of WW2
(Great Escape) - Books & Magazines
Canadian and American magazines that reported on the lives of the rich and famous were very popular
