What did John Steinbeck describe in The Grapes of Wrath?
A) He described the horrors of working in the California vineyards.
B) He described the challenges of industrial labor in the 1930s.
C) He described the rise of the middle class despite the opposition of large corporations.
D) He described the collapse of a capitalist society.
E) He described the desperate struggles of an uprooted dust-bowl family.
Question 2
What feature of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 established the basic framework of federal agricultural policy for decades to come?
A) The government provided subsidies to producers of major farm commodities in return for cutting production.
B) In order to boost agricultural production the government made loans to farmers to invest in more land, machinery, and labor.
C) In years of big harvests and low prices, the government would make loans to farmers and store their surplus crops in government warehouses.
D) The government encouraged the survival of the family farm by withholding aid to agribusiness.
E) Farm workers were now covered by collective bargaining and minimum wage laws.
John Muir
American Children with Working Parents
John Taylor, Treaty Signing at Medicine Lodge Creek.
Bill Viola, Room for St. John of the Cross.
John Singer Sargent, Rushing Brook.
Thompson Seedless Grapes