The Dirty Thirties

Question 1

What caused the Great Depression

Answer 1

Crash of the stock market

Question 2

How much value did the stock market lose

Answer 2

39%

Question 3

What did the great depression affect, how, and for how long

Answer 3

-Canadas economy
-Social Despare
-10 years

Question 4

What did Families have to do during the Great Depression (3)

Answer 4

-Adapt to surviving on
High food price
Low income
Unemployment

Question 5

What did the government create trying to help suffering Canadians

Answer 5

Relief camps

Question 6

What are relief camps and who could join (5)

Answer 6

-Men
-work physically demanding labour
-Single
-Homeless
-Unemployed

Question 7

How much were Canadian relief workers paid

Answer 7

30 cents

Question 8

What did men do at relief camps and how long did they work (5)

Answer 8

-44 hour weeks
-clear bush
-build roads
-plant trees
-construction

Question 9

Who attacked the government for the camps and why

Answer 9

Critics
Instead of creating a reasonable work program with reasonable wage

Question 10

Who how many and why were there strikers?

Answer 10

People in Vancouver
Thousands
They demanded work minimum wage and better conditions in the camps

Question 11

What is pogey

Answer 11

A government relief payment system given to those who had no other source of income

Question 12

What popped up around Canada and who ran them?

Answer 12

Soup kitchens
Church organizations and volunteers

Question 13

How much did Canada‘s overall public private spending fall?

Answer 13

42%

Question 14

How many Canadians were unemployed and why

Answer 14

30%
Laid off because businesses shut down

Question 15

What what hardship did Canadian farmers experience?

Answer 15

Prolong drought which caused repeated devastation to annual harvest

Question 16

Who led the conservative party?

Answer 16

RB Bennett

Question 17

When did the liberal party lose against the conservatives?

Answer 17

1930

Question 18

When did Bennett become the leader of the conservatives?

Answer 18

1927

Question 19

What did Bennett underestimate?

Answer 19

The severity and longevity of the depression

Question 20

What did Bennett propose when and what happened?

Answer 20

A bold legislative program in January 1935
His reform measures caused distrust in his party, and he failed to revive the Publix enthusiasm

Question 21

What happened in the October 1935 election?

Answer 21

The conservative party was defeated by WL McKenzie King for the liberals

Question 22

What did the communist party organize during the Great Depression and when

Answer 22

They launched a subsidiary organization, called the unemployed council in 1930

Question 23

What did the cooperative Commonwealth Federation unite?

Answer 23

Farmers labourers and socialist

Question 24

What is JS Woodworth known for?

Answer 24

Being a saint in politics, because of his devotion to improving the human condition

Question 25

What did RB Bennett Prime Minister quote mean? (4)

Answer 25

-He was up-to-date on the Great Depression
-however he didn’t suffer as the majority of the working class did
-He wanted to change for the better of Canada
-He wanted to amp up government control and authority
He added up losing the 1935 election