Rockridge Social Studies
the history place
Interwar Years Review
One Big Union
Winnipeg General Strike
"Alien-bating"
Halibut Treaty
Alexander Mackenzie King
Julien Byng
Statute of Westminster, 1931
Prohibition
Great Depression
Dust Bowl
Tariffs (protectionism)
Wall Street Market Crash
Buying on Installments
Buying on Margin
Herbert Hoover
Hooverville
Hoover blankets
Shanty towns
Capitalism
Ideologies
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Communism
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Socialism
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Liberalism
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Conservativsm
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Fascism
Oct 29, 1929 "Black Tuesday"
Bill Bennett
Bank of Canada
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
"Trickle-down" economics
"Pump-priming" economics
"Bloody Saturday"
Chanak Crisis
Supply and Demand
Make-work projects
Soup kitchens
King-Byng Confrontation
Supreme Court of Canada
Drought
Reparations
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The New Deal
Bank Holiday
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
"Bennettburghs"
"Bennetbuggy"
Relief Camps
"Slave Camps"
Andrew McNaughton
"Royal Twenty Centres"
"Riding the rods"
On to Ottawa Trek
Bible Bill Aberhart
Social Credit
J.S. Woodsworth
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
Regina Manifesto
Maurice Duplessis
Padlock Law
Famous Five
Emily Murphy
Cairine Wilson
The Persons Case
Balfour Report
Laissez Faire
J.P. Morgan
Pogey (welfare)
Autonomy
Commonwealth
Moratorium
Solvent Banks
CBC Radio
Family Allowance
Unemployment Insurance
Concepts to Understand
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Why did Byng refuse to dissolve parliament after Mackenzie King's request during the King-Byng confrontation?
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What was meant by the "Roaring Twenties"?
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Why did this prosperity have major flaws?
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How did things go wrong for the farmers leading up to the Great Depression?
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Problems associated with Canada being an export nation.
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How come Mackenzie King lost the election to Bennett?
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Why did workers in Relief Camps become unhappy with their situation?
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What attempts were made by Roosevelt to ease the hardship in America during the Great Depression?
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After the stock market crash, a "spiral effect" of unemployment and hardship followed. Understand how this played out.