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Makers of America: Class discussion and exercises
Makers Of America: The Dust Bowl Migrants
Chapter 33:
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933 - 1939
Questions for Class Discussion
- In what ways was the migration of the
Okies and Arkies to California similar to European
or Asian immigration to the United States, and in what ways was it different?
- How does the actual historical experience
of the Dust Bowl migrants compare with the fictional portrayal of one such
family in John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath?
Is the knowledge that most Americans have of this migration primarily shaped
by that novel?
Suggested Student Exercises
- Use a map to trace the Dust Bowl migrants
route from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas to the San Joaquin Valley.
- Read some of the descriptive passages
from Steinbecks novel. Consider why he found in these migrants
experience a suitable subject for a socially conscious work about the Great
Depression.
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