The Great Depression- QUIZ
Test Your Knowledge of the Great Depression
Explore the profound impact of the Great Depression through our engaging quiz. Test your understanding of this pivotal era in history and discover fascinating insights about the economic challenges faced by individuals and families.
- Multiple choice questions
- Insightful text-based inquiries
- Learn about historical figures and events
What was Black Tuesday?
Black Tuesday refers to October 29, 1929
Panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange
Day after Thanksgiving
Day people wear black
What is it called when people borrow money to buy stocks?
Trader
Buying on margin
Loan
How did the Stock Market Crash Occur
People bought stocks with easy credit.
Stock market building crashed
Stock market peak occured
What happened to people’s job after 1929?
Lost their job
Employment increased
Which provinces suffered the least?
Alberta and BC
ON and Quebec
New Brunswick and Alberta
Saskatchewan and BC
Who was the Prime Minister during the depression?
Sir John A. Macdonald
William Lyon Mackenzie King
R. B. Bennett
John Diefenbaker
Read the 2 letters and answer the questions
Letter 1
Hon. G.S. Henry Prime Minister Toronto, Ont.
Dear Prime Minister, I am a young married man, and a Canadian, greatly in need of help. The House of Industry, at Toronto, is supplying me with food, but as you know it is not the ambition of any red-blooded human being to spend his best years living on charity. I prefer to work. While I am staying here I have not much chance of getting it for some time. I know that you are doing a lot for people out of work, so I am turning to you for assistance. My wife is a Maltese girl and I have been assured by her family in Malta, of getting work there, because I have a working knowledge of a few trades and some education in English. Now the problem is how to get there. I have no money or decent clothing. If you could help us to get passage to Malta we would be greatly indebted to you and appreciate it as long as we live. Trusting you will give our case a little of your valuable attention, I remain,
Very sincerely yours
Letter 2
Cache Bay, Ontario
February 25, 1933
Dear Sir Henry
To-day I am writing you these couple of line (sic) to ask you a great favour. Because it’s
a week that I have been not able to go to school because I have no shoes. Will you will
really say that I am a great pest but I am really writing in crying to see that here we have
so much trouble with relief while other in other place (sic) have no trouble. Now they say
the government has took (sic) the place but the man who tooke (sic) stop the school
supplies and says that we can have no clothes anymore but I would have love to
sometime (sic) my school because it is the only think (sic) that would help me is to be
well educated and if I pass my entrance I will try to apply for a job. And if I earn money I
will repay you all this. So please try to send a couple of dollars to help a poor cripple
little girl and I am sure that god would repay you all this. And I do pray god to preserve
such a man like you are and may you live long years again. You know that god as said
“The one who helped the poor, the suffer, the cripple would have a great reward after
life.” Please you wont refuse to send a couple of Dollars to get myself a pair of shoes
and rubbers because that money wont make you poorer or wont be lost instead of $5.00
God will send you $10. So please in your honour do your best and I know that will
answer because you are not as selfish as Premier Ferguson because before I wrote to
you I had written to Premier F and he did not even write but you are not as self-fish as
he is. So I close for now hoping to receive a letter from you as soon as possible.
God bless you
P.S. Excuse the writing because I have no ink and pen to write
To get this letter address I will have to go to the second neighbour
Read the 2 letters and answer the questions
Letter 1
Hon. G.S. Henry Prime Minister Toronto, Ont.
Dear Prime Minister, I am a young married man, and a Canadian, greatly in need of help. The House of Industry, at Toronto, is supplying me with food, but as you know it is not the ambition of any red-blooded human being to spend his best years living on charity. I prefer to work. While I am staying here I have not much chance of getting it for some time. I know that you are doing a lot for people out of work, so I am turning to you for assistance. My wife is a Maltese girl and I have been assured by her family in Malta, of getting work there, because I have a working knowledge of a few trades and some education in English. Now the problem is how to get there. I have no money or decent clothing. If you could help us to get passage to Malta we would be greatly indebted to you and appreciate it as long as we live. Trusting you will give our case a little of your valuable attention, I remain,
Very sincerely yours
Letter 2
Cache Bay, Ontario
February 25, 1933
Dear Sir Henry
To-day I am writing you these couple of line (sic) to ask you a great favour. Because it’s
a week that I have been not able to go to school because I have no shoes. Will you will
really say that I am a great pest but I am really writing in crying to see that here we have
so much trouble with relief while other in other place (sic) have no trouble. Now they say
the government has took (sic) the place but the man who tooke (sic) stop the school
supplies and says that we can have no clothes anymore but I would have love to
sometime (sic) my school because it is the only think (sic) that would help me is to be
well educated and if I pass my entrance I will try to apply for a job. And if I earn money I
will repay you all this. So please try to send a couple of dollars to help a poor cripple
little girl and I am sure that god would repay you all this. And I do pray god to preserve
such a man like you are and may you live long years again. You know that god as said
“The one who helped the poor, the suffer, the cripple would have a great reward after
life.” Please you wont refuse to send a couple of Dollars to get myself a pair of shoes
and rubbers because that money wont make you poorer or wont be lost instead of $5.00
God will send you $10. So please in your honour do your best and I know that will
answer because you are not as selfish as Premier Ferguson because before I wrote to
you I had written to Premier F and he did not even write but you are not as self-fish as
he is. So I close for now hoping to receive a letter from you as soon as possible.
God bless you
P.S. Excuse the writing because I have no ink and pen to write
To get this letter address I will have to go to the second neighbour
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