Grade 11 Socials 1920s vs 1930s
THE RULES: All teams play each question Give each answer in the form of a question Host’s decisions are FINAL
And now…here is the host of Jeopardy… Mr. Oliveira
Let’s Get Ready to play… Today’s Categories are:
The Rooooaring Twenties
Those Damn Dirty Politics of the Twenties
The Stock Market Crash
The Dirty Thirties
Those Dirty Damn Politics of the Thirties
Potpourri
The Rooooaring Twenties Those Damn Dirty Politics of the Twenties The Stock Market Crash The Dirty Thirties Those Dirty Damn Politics of the Thirties Potpourri 100 100 100 100 100 100 DD 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 FJ 500 500 500 500 500 500
3 ways Canadian families suffered after World War I ended? Answer…
What are Industry turnover, High unemployment, High prices for goods and services? 100
Group of workers who unite to achieve common goals in discussions with employers. Answer…
What is a union? 200
smuggling liquor across the boarder. Answer…
What is “Rum Running”? 300
The assembly line led to mass production which helped make this product cheaper and more reliable. Answer…
What is the automobile? 400
This was the term given to describe a party girl. Answer…
What is a flapper? 500
Three demands unions had during the Winnipeg General Strike. Answer…
What are a 40 hour (shorter) work week, minimum wage increase and union representation? 100
Leader of the co-operative commonwealth federation. Answer…
Who is J.S. Woodsworth? 200
Mackenzie King resigns due to Liberal scandal and Governor General Byng’s refusal to allow the Liberals to call an election. Answer…
What is the King Byng Crisis? 300
Five Albertan Women fight in courts to give women more rights in the Canadian government. Answer…
What is the Persons Case? 400
Three Prime Ministers of the 1920s. Answer…
Who are Robert Borden, Arthur Meighen, and Mackenzie King? 500
Event known as “Black Tuesday”. Answer…
What is the Stock Market Crash? 100
Three disasters that added to problems in Canada’s west during the 1930s Answer…
What are drought, dust storms, and grasshoppers? 200
During times of depression, unemployment rates hit an all-time high (%). Answer…
What was 25%? 300
Identify at least 3 underlying causes of the Great Depression. Answer…
What are. over-production and over-expansion What are? *over-production and over-expansion *dependence on primary products *Canada’s dependence on the USA *high tariffs choke off international trade *too much credit buying *too much credit buying of stocks 400
Getting arrested for not having a job. Answer…
What is Vagrancy? 500
The name given to government relief during the 1930’s. Answer…
What is the “Dole”? 100
Moving from town to town during the depression by rail. Answer…
What is “riding the rods” or “the rails”? 200
The Prime Minister of Canada during the Great Depression whom many Canadians wrote to asking for help. Answer…
Who was R.B. Bennett? 300
Places to get food for free during the Depression. Answer…
What are soup Kitchens? 400
Places created to give men work or keep them off the street during the Great Depression. Answer…
What are Relief Camps? 500
Three new major political parties that gained popularity during the 1930s in Canada. Answer…
What are the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Social Credit Party and the Union Nationale? 100
Bennett’s Bill that he believed might help get Canada out of the Depression. Answer…
What is “Bennett's New Deal” or Canada’s New Deal”? 200
Relief camp workers traveled to Ottawa to present their demands to the federal government Answer…
What is the On-to-Ottawa Trek? 300
The two Prime Ministers of Canada during the 30’s. Answer…
Who are R.B. Bennett and William Lyon Mackenzie King? 400
Automobiles that were modified using a horse instead of an engine to power it during the Depression where named after one of our Prime Ministers. Answer…
What were “Bennett’s Buggies”? 500
Law that states that alcohol cannot be produced, sold or distributed. Answer…
What is prohibition? 100
Only source of media entertainment in the home during the 1920s. Answer…
What is the radio? 200
Prohibition caused this problem to arise in the major cities across North America especially Toronto and Chicago. Answer…
What is organized crime? 300
Citizens received these instead of money when applying for public relief. Answer…
What are food vouchers and or stamps? 400
This ended the Great Depression. Answer…
What is WWII? 500
Daily Double How much do you want to wager? Daily Double
FINAL JEOPARDY
CATEGORY: Economics How much do you want to wager? Proceed…
What were 2 out of the 3 economic ideas put forth by John Maynard Keynes? Proceed…
Spend your way out of a recession and or depression Governments should be involved in the economy when in a depression or recession Spend your way out of a recession and or depression Put money into the hands of more people Proceed…
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