1930s: Solutions for the Depression

CHC2D8Ms. Gluskin

GOVERNMENT POLICIESDay 1

• By 1933 1 out of 5 Canadians were out of work.

• From 1929 to 1933, 20% of Canadians depended on relief.

Freeman-Shaw, Elizabeth and Jan Haskings-Winner. Canadian Sources: Investigated. 1914 to the Present. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, Ltd., 2008. Pages 50 and 52.

In such hard times, would the government have to change its policies?

Gov’t Words• Policy / Strategy• Political party (group of people with the same beliefs

about government – they want to get elected to be the government)

• Election / Elect• Provincial• Federal (national)• Municipal (city)

Prime Ministers

King= Liberal Party, Bennett = Conservative Party

Vocabulary 104-105

• Alarmed (adjective) = shocked• Unemployment relief (noun) = help for people

without jobs• Federal/provincial = levels of government• Five cent piece (noun) = a nickel• Fed up with = had enough of• Strategy = way of doing things• Limited role = small or restricted role

Homework

Finish:• TLS Worksheet # 2.2.6 (King and Bennett Venn

Diagram)

NEW POLITICAL PARTIES – HOW DID EACH PARTY WANT TO HELP PEOPLE IN THE DEPRESSION?

Day 2

Vocabulary 94-95• Radio preacher (noun) = a person who spoke about religion

on the radio• Demand (noun) = when a lot of people want something• Premier (noun) = leader of the provincial government• Vowed (verb) = promised to do something• Democratic socialism (noun) = a political belief system• Social programs (noun) = government policies to keep people

from falling into poverty

Social Credit

Believed in giving people money in order to help them in hard times.

CCF

Cooperative Commonwealth Federation

Believed in government helping lower class people, workers and the unemployed.

“comradeship in unity” (cooperative commonwealth)

Union Nationale

Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Quebec, 1936-1939

Believed that blaming Quebec’s problems on English-speaking businesses would help the French-speaking, Roman Catholic people.

Homework

Finish:TLS Worksheet #2.1.7 (New Political Parties)

RELIEF CAMPSDay 3

Photos from About.com Canada Online. Great Depression in Canada Pictures. 2014. http://canadaonline.about.com/od/historyphotos/ig/Great-Depression-Canada/ (March 19, 2014).

Living Conditions

Temporary housing at relief camp in Northern Ontario.

Dormitories at Trenton Relief Camp in Ontario

Work

Vocabulary 106-107• Relief (noun) = help, assistance• Remote (adjective) = far away, isolated• Grateful (adjective) = thankful• Trek (noun) = trip, journey• Hitched a ride (expression) = jumped on• Sympathy (noun) = feel emotion for someone

• It is easy to feel sympathy for people who lost their homes and their jobs.

• Protest rally (noun) = when a group of people gather to show their opposition to something

• Riot (noun) = when a protest gets violent

On-to-Ottawa Trek

Protestors wanted to go from British Columbia to Ottawa to complain about the camps.

Did the Gov’t Help Enough? Did the Gov’t Do its Job?

Yes

Somewhat

NoYour answer depends on your perspective.

Gov’t Workers

Homework

• Finish: – TLS Worksheet #2.2.7 (Relief from Both Sides)

CHANGING ROLE OF GOVERNMENTDay 4

Primary Source Evidence

• Bennett’s radio address, January 2, 1935– “In the last five years, great changes have taken

place in the world. The old order is gone. It will not return. … Reform means government intervention; it means government control and regulation; it means the end of laissez-faire. Reform heralds certain recovery.”

Did Bennett think government’s role had changed?

Role of Government

Active Role (hands on)

Limited Role (hands off)

•“Taking care of people during hard times.”•“provide social programs, such as welfare and medical care, to help people in need.” •“These social programs would be funded through taxes paid by everyone.”

•“Defend the country during war”•“Regulate immigration”•“Build things that everyone used such as railways and roads.”

Vocabulary 97

• Limited role = little government involvement• Regulate (verb) = to make rules• Social programs (noun) = government services

to help people

Did the government’s role change in these areas?

• P• E• R• S• I• A• T

Worksheet on the Changing Role of Gov’t

• Each group should place the events on the spectrum of government involvement– Group 1: 1-2– Group 2: 3-4– Group 3: 5-6– Group 4: 7-8– Group 5: 9-10– Group 6: 11-13

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