<p> Ch. 16 Section 3 Active Reading P. 482 – 486 Name: Date: Period: 1. Who was the billboard sign directed towards?</p><p>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.</p><p>4. How did the Department of Agriculture work to prevent future disasters?</p><p>5. Who were the “Okies”?</p><p>6. Who was Woody Guthrie? According to his song, how did the Dust Bowl storms affect life?</p><p>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.</p><p>8. Why was the Field Workers Union formed? Were they successful in accomplishing their goal(s)?</p><p>9. Which THREE images convey the human suffering of the New Deal Era?</p><p>10. Who did several federal agencies hire and why?</p><p>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?</p><p>13. Identify Migrant Mother. What emotions do you think it captures? (p.485)</p><p>14. What did the New Deal programs improve?</p><p>15. Government administrator Louis Armstrong recalled most people preferred ______to ______.</p><p>16. What was the NYA and how did it help?</p><p>17. Identify the THREE major arguments of critics to the New Deal.</p><p>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.</p><p>20. In what ways did the New Deal improve the daily lives of Americans?</p><p>Ch. 16.4 Active Reading pp. 487-491 21. What was the purpose of Federal Project Number One?</p><p>22. Who is the FWP? What did they do?</p><p>23. The ______hired unemployed artists and designers to produce posters for New Deal programs, ______, and ______on public buildings.</p><p>24. The Federal ______Project helped launch the careers of numerous successful ______. Many of these ______incorporated themes of ______into their works.</p><p>25. What is John Steinbeck’s famous novel? What is it about?</p><p>26. Who did Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright focus their novels on?</p><p>27. What was the best-selling novel of the 1930s? Why did so many people read it?</p><p>28. Identify the social issues portrayed by Frank Capra AND the films showing those issues.</p><p>29. Name THREE popular plays and explain their focus/theme.</p><p>30. Read the excerpts on p.489: What mood do both Steinbeck and Hurston convey?</p><p>31. How were the issues of the New Deal Era reflected in novels, films, and plays of the 1930s?</p><p>32. How was country music popularized?</p><p>33. What two music genres does Gospel cross? 34. Why would some ministers object to Gospel music?</p><p>35. Where does “swing” dancing get its name?</p><p>36. Who are Jacob Lawrence and Georgia O’Keeffe? What were their topics?</p><p>37. A group of Midwestern artists known as the ______stressed ______and ______.</p><p>38. What were urban art lovers reminded of by these paintings?</p><p>39. Which painting became the most famous of the era?</p><p>40. How did music and painting styles change during the Great Depression?</p><p>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.</p>