1. Calls For Help Date: April 1st Dear Mr. Prime Minister What did the PM’s do? Whose response was better, King’s or Bennett’s? With political cartoons! What is one direct consequence of the depression, and what is one indirect consequence?

2. What Did WLM King Do? “I will not give them a 5 cent piece”

4. Set up work camps for single men

5. The centralized Bank of Canada

6. Spent money for gov’t funded make-work projects

7. Reformed Employment

9. This time, King took some action.

10. He created a new trade treaty with the USA.

12. King or Bennett? For this assignment you must complete the T-chart and use it to determine whether Mackenzie King or R.B. Bennett had the best response to the depression.

13. Political Cartoons Who is presented in the cartoon? What is happening in the cartoon?Why are people in the cartoon doing what they’re doing?What kinds of symbols are being used and what are they representing?

14. Political Cartoons Who is presented in the cartoon? What is happening in the cartoon?Why are people in the cartoon doing what they’re doing?What kinds of symbols are being used and what are they representing?

15. Political Cartoons Who is presented in the cartoon? What is happening in the cartoon?Why are people in the cartoon doing what they’re doing?What kinds of symbols are being used and what are they representing?

16. So, who’s response was more adequate? King’s or Bennett’s? You decide. Remember about historical perspective, don’t use hindsight. Imagine you are right there in the 1930s.