AP US HISTORY Name: ____________________________________________ Dust Bowl Oddyssey - ATF In this essay the authors try to separate fact from fiction by analyzing the experiences described in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath with data and information drawn from the census of 1940. 1. Describe briefly the effects of the dust storms of the 1930s. 2. Who was Dorothea Lange? In what ways does she illustrate the view that all evidence must be carefully examined by historians? 3. What do we learn about the Joads and the great migration to the West when they are placed within a statistical context? Why is the 1940 census important to this process? 4. Why are tractors a symbol of the agricultural reorganization and mechanization of farming? 5. What were conditions really like in California during the 1930s? 6. In what ways did diversity shape California’s agriculture and history? How does understanding this multicultural experience help to place the arrival of the into the larger context of migration of California? “Oakies”
AP US HISTORY Name: ____________________________________________ Dust Bowl Oddyssey - ATF In this essay the authors try to separate fact from fiction by analyzing the experiences described in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath with data and information drawn from the census of 1940. 1. Describe briefly the effects of the dust storms of the 1930s. 2. Who was Dorothea Lange? In what ways does she illustrate the view that all evidence must be carefully examined by historians? 3. What do we learn about the Joads and the great migration to the West when they are placed within a statistical context? Why is the 1940 census important to this process? 4. Why are tractors a symbol of the agricultural reorganization and mechanization of farming? 5. What were conditions really like in California during the 1930s? 6. In what ways did diversity shape California’s agriculture and history? How does understanding this multicultural experience help to place the arrival of the “Oakies” into the larger context of migration of California?
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