How Do We Get Out of the Great Depression?

What Were Workers Doing?How were

workers responding to the Great Depression?

What had the government done to try to help workers?

Had the government done enough to try and help start the economy and help workers?

WHAT IS THIS???

Political Change!Remember William

Lyon Mackenzie King?

Could have used a filter when talking…

Said he would not give a “5-cent piece” to a Conservative Provincial Government

Lost support after denying financial help to those provinces

Enter: R. B. Bennett & the Conservative PartyWhat do you

know about the Conservative Party?

Against aiding the poor using government money

Introduced programs anyway, because the Depression was so bad

Will they work? Let’s find out!

Read: From “The Government Response”

Pages 101-103And After in Pairs:Did the government

do enough to help the poor?

What else do you think they could have done to help, given the problems people were facing?

Did workers think they did enough? How do you know?

Bennett’s New DealTaxed the rich

more than the poor

Gave current workers insurance for illness, injury, unemployment

Better worker rights

Better Old Age Pension for 65+

Regulated wheat prices to help protect farmers from changes in market price

Homework and Study TimeFill out the

handout on political parties of Canada in the 30’s

Key terms sheet should also be completed for your own benefit while studying for the test on This Friday

Any Questions?