Day 44: Causes and effects of the Great Depression

Pop quiz: did you do your HW from yesterday?

Go over the cause of the housing crisis (2008)

Crash Course (John Green): The Great Depression (a great description of what happened in the US - this was felt world wide) Click to watch

Read the effects of the great depression.  How did it affect people in Canada?
Read pages 94-100.
Answer #1, 2a, 3, 6 on page 100.

• Prairie drought
• Unemploymenet
• Pogey
• Riding the rails
• Disadvantaged (immigrants, Aboriginals)
• Women in the 1930s

Handout: 1920s change/Solutions for the Great Depression.

For MONDAY read pages 101-104.
Answer #1, pg 104 (add to the photocopied notes).

CPH: "Descent into chaos" (a look at how Canadians were affected)

REMINDER of project presentations on December 3/4