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Worksheets1930s Canada
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
On Tuesday October 29, 1929 ...
The value of stocks went up dramatically and many became wealthy
Many people started by stocks which added to the prosperity of the time
thousands of investors crowded the New York Stock Exchange to sell their stocks as the stock market crashed
Mr. McFarlane was born
Roots of the great depression can be traced back to what spending habit of the 1920s?
Spending all savings of cars
Using credit to buy goods and stocks
Saving money and refusing to spent on frivolous items
Taking all the money to the casino
Why were rural people in Central and Eastern Canada able to cope better than urban Canadians or farmers on the Prairies?
Because they grew fruit
People in Eastern Canada were able to read
There were fewer wolves
The drought didn't affect the farms in the east and farmers were able to eat and sell their crops.
What is vagrancy?
When someone eats everyone's supper
When someone refuses to work in order to pressure employers to give the worker better wages or work conditions
To ride the rails, unemployed and looking for work
A contagious skin condition that causes loud outbursts
What event is generally considered to be the start of the great depression?
Dust Bowl
Stock Market Crash
The New Deal
Prohibition
What did prime minister RB Bennett do to help during the depression?
Gave $20 million to the provinces and wanted to balance the budget to wait for recovery to happen.
Funded social programs to help the people
Put a socialist economic system in place
Dance Dance Dance
How could the Canadian government have helped prevent the worst impact of the depression?
Provide more money to fund social services
Tell people to work harder
Provide the rich with money so they could hire the poor
Nothing
Stocks are:
Money that a company gives its employees
A share of a company that will change in value
A bird that brings babies
A piece of paper with numbers
Why did farms fail in the west?
Banks increased interest rates
Wheat prices went up but the train wasn't able to ship goods
A combo of drought, falling wheat prices, and locusts
Terrible snow storms damaged the soil
To save money during the depression people:
Moved in with other families to save on rent
repaired old clothing
Cut out frivolous expenses
All of the above
The Canadian government saw unemployed men in Canada during the 1930s as a:
Problem because they were lazy
Problem because they were getting sick
A problem because they might fight for radical change in Canada
A problem because they were having too many babies
A solution to the problem of unemployed men in Canada during the 1930s was:
To use unemployment insurance to pay them
Kill them
Put men into relief camps
Ship men to the Yukon Territory
