Class Notes
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Homework and Assignments
Homework February 20
Homework March 5
Homework March 8
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Things to Know .....
Gross National Product (140)
Stock Market Crash (139) Black Tuesday (139) Social Safety Net (139) Stock Market (140) On Margin (140) The Business Cycle (143) Palliser triangle (146) Hobo (155) Public Works (171) |
Staple Products (140)
Relief Camps (172) On-to-Ottawa Trek (174) Communism (180) Soup Kitchens (170) Consumer Demand (149) R.B. Bennett (171) Shanty Towns (149) Anti-Semitism (157) Bush Pilots (166) |
Private Property (180)
Capitalist System (180) Social Security (180) Social Welfare (180) Social Credit (184) Socialist (181) Foster Hewitt (160) Emily Carr (165) CRBC (167) Preferential Duties (176) |
The Big Issues .......
1. What were the conditions in Canada that made us vulnerable to a large depression?
2. What event triggered the Great Depression on October 29, 1929? Describe how this happened.
3. What types of relief programs were available during the depression from either private charities
or from government sources?
4. Why were the Relief Camps created? Describe life for the men there.
5. Why did the people in Canada start the on-to-ottawa trek? What was the end results of this
demonstration?
6. How did the depression change the way Canadians behaved towards each other, both in good
and bad ways?
7. What new political parties came to power during the Great Depression?
2. What event triggered the Great Depression on October 29, 1929? Describe how this happened.
3. What types of relief programs were available during the depression from either private charities
or from government sources?
4. Why were the Relief Camps created? Describe life for the men there.
5. Why did the people in Canada start the on-to-ottawa trek? What was the end results of this
demonstration?
6. How did the depression change the way Canadians behaved towards each other, both in good
and bad ways?
7. What new political parties came to power during the Great Depression?
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