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| During the 1920s, the major weakness of the Canadian economy was the heavy dependence on the export of _________ ___________. |
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| By the end of the 1920s, Canadian _______ suffered from huge stockpiles of grain no one wanted. |
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| a system of using tariffs to raise the price of imported good in order to protect domestics producers was a one of the causes of the depression. |
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| Mackenzie King’s initial response to the onset of the Depression in 1930 was a _________ of the problem. |
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| One reason Mackenzie King lost the election of 1930 was that he refused to spend any public money in provinces with a _______________ government. |
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| Conservative Prime Minister of Canada between 1930 and 1935. |
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| During the 1930s ____________ cased a slowdown in world trade as opportunities for export shrank. |
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| During the Depression the Canadian government _____________ unemployed immigrants. |
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| During the Depression, many women with jobs were forced into early retirement or fired to provide jobs for _______. |
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| T/F Unemployed single men and women were eligible for relief. |
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| T/F Men with families were eligible for relief. |
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| Most relief programs paid (more/less) than was needed for a family to buy food. |
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| T/F Prosperity, recession, depression, recovery is the correct sequence of the business cycle. |
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| T/F Prosperity - recession - recovery - depression is the correct sequence of the business cycle. |
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| T/F Prosperity - recovery - recession - depression is the correct sequence of the business cycle. |
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| T/F Recovery - depression - prosperity - recession is the correct sequence of the business cycle. |
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| T/F Faced with the Depression, Bennett balanced the federal budget |
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| T/F Faced with the Depression, Bennett followed the principles of John Maynard Keynes. |
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| Faced with personal pleas for assistance from destitute Canadians, R.B. Bennett often sent people __________. |
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| “Bennett buggies” were _______ pulled by horses. |
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| During the Depression Bennett's government spent 20 million dollars on ________________. |
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| During the Depression Bennett's government raised __________ to protect Canadian industries. |
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| In 1935 Bennett's government passed the Prairie ________ Rehabilitation Act. |
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| Economic life for Canadians with ______ in the 1930s improved slightly. |
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| T/F Locusts were one of the environmental calamities that affected the Prairies during the 1930s. |
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| T/F Wheat rust was one of the environmental calamities that affected the Prairies during the 1930s. |
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| T/F Droughts were one of the environmental calamities that affected the Prairies during the 1930s. |
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| T/F Flooding was one of the environmental calamities that affected the Prairies during the 1930s. |
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| In order to deal with large numbers of unemployed men, Bennett created a system of ______ camps in remote areas. |
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| T/F Conditions at relief camps led to a rise in political radicalism. |
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| T/F Conditions at relief camps encouraged men to join the Army as an alternative. |
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| T/F Conditions at relief camps improved slowly. |
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| T/F Conditions at relief camps were the subject of a Royal Commission inquiry in 1934. |
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| T/F The group that was most affected by the Depression were skilled professionals. |
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| T/F The group that was most affected by the Depression were older men. |
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| T/F The group that was most affected by the Depression were younger men with few job skills. |
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| T/F The group that was most affected by the Depression were civil servants. |
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| The region in Canada where personal income suffered the greatest decline during the Depression. |
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| Political party which suggested that the government should ‘make up’ the difference between the price paid to producers and that paid by consumers. |
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| The theory of social credit was that _______ needlessly hoarded money. |
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| The province in which Social Credit Party originated. |
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| The political party which stated that capitalism created economic inequality, published its views in the Regina Manifesto and proposed government control over the economy. |
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| The premier from this province sold off the fleet of government limousines. |
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| Construction of the Lions Gate Bridge was approved in 1933 because it was seen as a ______________ project. |
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| Nation which imposed prohibition between 1920 and 1933. |
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| In 1935, some 1800 unemployed men began a journey to Ottawa to protest the Depression. The federal government responded by stopping the men by force in ___________. |
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| Location of a riot involving unemployed men in July, 1935. |
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| T/F In 1935, R.B. Bennett proposed a ‘Canadian New Deal’. It included a fairer taxation system. |
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| T/F In 1935, R.B. Bennett proposed a ‘Canadian New Deal’. It included unemployment insurance. |
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| T/F In 1935, R.B. Bennett proposed a ‘Canadian New Deal’. It included health insurance. |
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| In the 1935 federal ______________ became the Prime Minister of Canada. |
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| T/F When Mackenzie King was re-elected in 1935, he spent large sums of money on social programs. |
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| T/F When Mackenzie King was re-elected in 1935, he adopted Bennett’s ‘Canadian New Deal’ proposal. |
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| T/F When Mackenzie King was re-elected in 1935, he borrowed money to spend millions on job creation programs. |
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| The concept of ________________ payments is the federal government should support poorer provinces. |
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| Nation in the world that was relatively unaffected by the Depression. |
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| World event which ultimately ended the Depression. |
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