Unit X: The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question/Problem 1: In what ways were people's lives affected by the Depression?

Directions: Read the passage from the book, The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), pp. 331-332, beginning with the line "Tom turned on the children.... " (Permission to reprint passage not granted.)

As you read the passage, think about how the Great Depression affected people.