Chapter 14 Section 1 Active Reading

Ch. 16 Section 3 Active Reading P. 482 – 486 Name: Date: Period: 1. Who was the billboard sign directed towards?

2. In the mid-1930s a severe drought struck the ______. Winds picked up ______that had loosened and dried, turning a ______region into a wasteland. 3. Define Dust Bowl.

4. How did the Department of Agriculture work to prevent future disasters?

5. Who were the “Okies”?

6. Who was Woody Guthrie? According to his song, how did the Dust Bowl storms affect life?

7. Which TWO groups often found themselves discriminated against in New Deal programs? Identify the new labor force in California that increased job competition throughout the 1920s.

8. Why was the Field Workers Union formed? Were they successful in accomplishing their goal(s)?

9. Which THREE images convey the human suffering of the New Deal Era?

10. Who did several federal agencies hire and why?

11. No agency used ______more effectively than the FSA, whose staff gathered more than ______of American life during the depression. 12. Who is Dorothea Lange?

13. Identify Migrant Mother. What emotions do you think it captures? (p.485)

14. What did the New Deal programs improve?

15. Government administrator Louis Armstrong recalled most people preferred ______to ______.

16. What was the NYA and how did it help?

17. Identify the THREE major arguments of critics to the New Deal.

18. Who was originally NOT covered by the Social Security Act? How many workers are NOW covered? 19. In 1935, only about ______of American farms had ______. By 1950 nearly ______did.

20. In what ways did the New Deal improve the daily lives of Americans?

Ch. 16.4 Active Reading pp. 487-491 21. What was the purpose of Federal Project Number One?

22. Who is the FWP? What did they do?

23. The ______hired unemployed artists and designers to produce posters for New Deal programs, ______, and ______on public buildings.

24. The Federal ______Project helped launch the careers of numerous successful ______. Many of these ______incorporated themes of ______into their works.

25. What is John Steinbeck’s famous novel? What is it about?

26. Who did Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright focus their novels on?

27. What was the best-selling novel of the 1930s? Why did so many people read it?

28. Identify the social issues portrayed by Frank Capra AND the films showing those issues.

29. Name THREE popular plays and explain their focus/theme.

30. Read the excerpts on p.489: What mood do both Steinbeck and Hurston convey?

31. How were the issues of the New Deal Era reflected in novels, films, and plays of the 1930s?

32. How was country music popularized?

33. What two music genres does Gospel cross? 34. Why would some ministers object to Gospel music?

35. Where does “swing” dancing get its name?

36. Who are Jacob Lawrence and Georgia O’Keeffe? What were their topics?

37. A group of Midwestern artists known as the ______stressed ______and ______.

38. What were urban art lovers reminded of by these paintings?

39. Which painting became the most famous of the era?

40. How did music and painting styles change during the Great Depression?

41. Imagine that you are an artist hired by Federal Project Number One. Write a brief note to FDR describing how your life has changed. Be sure to consider:  What problems artists were facing before the project.  How the project promoted arts.  What might have happened to the arts without the project.