Organizing Facts 13 Points - 1/2 Each
The numbered items are names, titles, and facts associated with the different segments of
American society during the Great Depression. Complete the diagram by writing the number
of each item from the Fact Bank in the correct box. One item fits in more than one place in the
diagram.
People
of the
Depression
1.5
Women in the Workforce
Dust Bowl Farmers
Minorities
Radicals
Entertainers, Writers, and Artists
1. victims of "black blizzards"
2. Grant Wood
3. thousands went bankrupt
4. socialists
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. John Collier
7. suffered prejudice in the
workforce
8. migrated to California
9. Ellen Sullivan Woodward
10. Margaret Bourke-White
11. 500,000 Mexican
immigrants forced to leave the
United States
Word Bank
12. Ralph Bunche
13. Frances Perkins
14. Communists
15. Indian Reorganization Act
16. Shirley Temple
17. migrated to Northern cities
18. The Lone Ranger
19. lost their jobs to white people
20. Hattie Caraway
21. grim realities of life por-
trayed
22. soap operas
23. Eleanor Roosevelt
24. fascism
25. became migrant workers
