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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?

2. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?

3. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?

4. From 1930 through 1940, the number of dust bowl farmers declined by how many?

5. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stereotypes were the Okies identified by? What happened to Okies who tried to defend themselves?

2. How did the region of the Dust Bowl change from 1930 to 1940? What hardships did farmers face?

3. How did the Okies of the Dust Bowl know when the storms were coming? What precautions had to be taken?

4. Who suffered the most from prejudice among the Okies? Why?

5. Where did the Okie families camp on their journey west? What food did they eat?

6. What signs did the Okies begin discovering after their arrival in California?

7. What did the Oklahoma Panhandle look like by 1936? What change took place at that time?

8. What physical dangers existed due to the dust storms in the Dust Bowl? What sickness arose?

9. How did the arrival of the Okies relate to immigration issues faced by Americans today?

10. What did the Federal Government do to help the Okies? When?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the lives of the Okies in the Okievilles versus their situation in the Weedpatch and other federally funded camps. How much did it cost a family to stay at a migrant camp? What was life on the camp like?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the region of the Tehachapi Mountains and the San Joaquin Valley. What cities did the Okies head to once arriving in California? What did they find there?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impact of the excess of farm workers arriving in California during the period. How were farm wages affected? How was the national economy impacted?

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