1930sThe Great Depression - Causes

CHC2D8Ms. Gluskin

Primary Source Evidence

What kind of feeling do you get about the depression from this person’s story?

Timeline: Positive and Negative Words

Causes: Stock Market Crash

Toronto Stock Exchange, 1937

Stock Exchange

Chain of Events: Causes and Consequences

ConsequencesEvicted (forced to leave for non-payment of rent) from their home

Lining up at a soup kitchen

Consequences

Soup kitchen

Consequences

Moving from Edmonton to Saskatoon to find work.

Vocabulary 90-91• Stock exchange (noun) = see slide (buy low, sell high)• Stocks (noun) = shares (pieces) of a company• Invest (verb) = to spend money on something that you hope will make you more

money

– Many people invested money in stocks in the 1920s. These investors suffered a lot when the price of their shares fell in 1929.

• Bubble of prosperity was about to burst (expression) = good times were about to end

• Plummet (verb) = to fall very quickly

• Sometimes in April the weather seems nice and spring-like and then the temperature suddenly plummets.

• Bumper crop (expression) = a very good harvest• Chain reaction (noun) = a series of events closely related to each other

• Crash (verb) = to fall very sharply• Bankruptcy (noun) = when people lose all their money• Consumer goods (noun) = things that people use in

their daily lives, such as radios in the 1930s• Demand (noun) = when a lot of people want

something• In winter there is a lot of demand for warm clothing,

whereas in spring there is a lot of demand for lighter clothing.

• Lay off (verb) = to lose your job

Worksheet

• Fill in TLS Worksheet 2.1.6 (chain of events)– Indicate short- or long-term causes (ST, LT)