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Grade 8 · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 10

Work and Money Through the Decades

Depression, boom and new economy

What your child practises

Practises how work, money and government programs changed in Canada from the Great Depression to today, from the family allowance and pensions to free trade and the loonie.

Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: Decades of change · how the economy, work and social programs changed in Canada from the 1920s to now

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is a recession?

    • a new tax
    • a kind of holiday
    • a time of fast growth
    • a period when the economy shrinks and jobs are lost

  2. Question 2

    Which program, begun in 1940, helps workers who lose their jobs?

    • medicare
    • the family allowance
    • the Charter
    • unemployment insurance

  3. Question 3

    How did computers change work from the 1980s on?

    • many tasks became faster and new kinds of jobs appeared
    • offices closed for good
    • all jobs ended
    • work went back to hand tools

  4. Question 4

    Which crop is a major export for Prince Edward Island?

    • rice
    • coffee
    • bananas
    • potatoes

  5. Question 5

    What was a “Bennett buggy” in the 1930s?

    • a type of train
    • a baby carriage
    • a car pulled by horses because owners could not afford gas
    • a new sports car

  6. Question 6

    A bar graph shows Island tourism visits rising after 1997. Which event might help explain it?

    • the Great Depression
    • the penny ending
    • the Confederation Bridge opening
    • the family allowance

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