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"THE DEPRESSION AND FDR"

 

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Chapter 25 Web Quest

“The Depression and FDR”

 

Use this site to answer the following questions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo#History

 

What is a “hobo”?

 

 

 

 

Why are hobos associated with railroads?

 

 

 

 

When do the number of hobos increase?

 

 

 

 

How do hobos communicate with each other?

 

 

 

 

Who was Woody Guthrie and what did you find most interesting about his “Legacy”?

 

 

 

 

Bonus Question:  What is “Big Rock Candy Mountain”?

 

 

 

Use this site to answer the following questions:

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html

 

Who wrote the book, “The Grapes of Wrath”?

 

 

 

 

 

What are the names of the main characters?

 

 

 

 

What is the book about?

 

 

 

 

Bonus Question:  In what chapter does the author describe Highway 66?

 

 

 

 

Use this site to answer the following questions:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html

 

What was the “Great Depression”?

 

 

 

 

How many people became unemployed?

 

 

 

 

Use this site to answer the following questions:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX06.html

 

What is a “dust bowl”?

 

 

 

 

Where is it?

 

 

 

 

What caused it?

 

 

 

 

 

Use this site to answer the following questions:

http://www.national66.com/66hstry.html

 

Why is U.S. Highway Route 66 called “The Mother Road”?

 

 

 

 

How many people traveled this road to escape the Dust Bowl?

 

 

 

Where is Route 66?

 

 

 

 

Use this site to answer the following questions:

http://www.cccalumni.org/history1.html

 

What does “CCC” stand for?

 

 

 

 

Why was it started?

 

 

 

 

What were the “two wasted resources” that the CCC brought together?

 

 

 

 

What did the CCC do?

 

 

 

 

Bonus Question:  Find the CCC camp closest to Rotterdam; list the name of the project and the project number.

 

 

 

 

 

Use these sites to answer the following questions:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html

http://www.museumca.org/global/art/collections_dorothea_lange.html

 

Who was Dorothea Lange?

 

 

 

Find the “archive” and look at some of the “migrant worker” images.  What do you see?

 

 

 

 

 

Use this site to answer the following questions:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande01.html

 

Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

 

 

 

 

What did she do during the Great Depression?

 

 

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