The Great Depression
This 1929 event triggered widespread panic and contributed to the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
John Steinbeck was born in this U.S. state.
What is California?
The Dust Bowl mainly affected this region of the United States.
What is the Great Plains?
Laws enforcing racial segregation in the 1930s were known by this name.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Most migrant workers in the 1930s were employed in this industry.
What is agriculture/farming?
During the Great Depression, many Americans struggled with this basic need due to unemployment.
What is food or jobs/shelter?
Steinbeck’s writing was controversial because he often sided with this group.
Who are the poor or oppressed?
Poor farming practices and this natural condition contributed to the Dust Bowl.
What is drought?
Women in the 1930s were often limited to these roles or expectations.
What are domestic/household roles?
Workers were often paid low wages and had no guarantee of this.
What is job security?
Unemployment during the Great Depression reached nearly this percentage of the workforce.
What is about 25%?
Steinbeck won this major literary award in 1962.
What is the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Many families left their farms and moved west to this state seeking work.
What is California?
African Americans in the 1930s were often denied access to this basic right, especially in the South.
What is voting?
The American Dream became harder to achieve because of this 1930s condition.
What is poverty/unemployment?
Many banks failed during the 1930s, causing people to lose this.
What is their savings/money?
Steinbeck uses the dream to show that for many people in the 1930s, it was this.
What is unrealistic or unattainable?
People who fled the Dust Bowl were often given this nickname, even if they weren’t from that state.
What are “Okies”?
This term describes the unfair belief that women were less capable than men.
What is sexism?
Workers had little power because employers could easily do this.
What is replace them?
People who had no place to live sometimes stayed in makeshift towns called these.
What are Hoovervilles?
Steinbeck frequently used this technique to make characters represent larger ideas.
What is symbolism?
The Dust Bowl was caused by a combination of drought and this human farming practice.
What is poor farming or over-plowing?
This class of people suffered the most during the Great Depression.
What is the working class or poor?
This president was in office when the Great Depression BEGAN.
Who is Herbert Hoover?