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RESEARCH DATABASES (not limited to these, but find a reliable source)

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RESEARCH DATABASES (not limited to these, but find a reliable source)

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Global Issues in Context

American History

U.S. History in Context

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Group Member Name:JAke

1.  Title- Migrant labor

2.  Summary-During dust bowl more than a million migrant moved. and they imported people into the farms. They were slaves though they didn't call them that.

3. Implications of Research (Why is it important?) Gives us more of a background around time of dust bowl and the okies

4.  Connection to The Grapes of Wrath - the thousands of people like the okies who moves during the dust came to west looking for work but were not socially accepted by the westerners.

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Jake
1.  Title- Migrant Workers

2.  Summary-Migrant workers are people who move across the country looking for temporary jobs in agriculture. The U.S encountered the greatest number of migrant workers from 1890 to 1914. Migrant workers stimulate the economy by working hard and buying goods.

3. Implications of Research (Why is it important?)
It shows what the definition of a migrant worker and how the okies migrated during the dust bowl in Oklahoma

4.  Connection to The Grapes of Wrath- It talks about how the okies were migrants in the 1930's and this book portrays the experience the okies and other migrant workers had as they were mistreated.

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The Grapes of wrath is about greed, the Americans did whatever it was necessary to gain more wealth.

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The Grapes of Wrath its showing a case of a clear fear and courage of problems between the california citizens and the Okies

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Group Member Name:Jake

1.  Title- Time to end shameful abuse; Migrant workers

2.  Summary-they are hard working and don't get paid a lot. Vulnerable to exploitation. They don't get strong protections from the government.

3. Implications of Research (Why is it important?) Because even today, the government doesn;t help these workers who work very hard and provide the people with fresh fruits and vegtables.

4.  Connection to The Grapes of Wrath- Just like today, the workers were treated badly and like they weren't apart of the society. The government didn;t help them and they had no way to get any money.

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Group Member Name: Jake

1.  Title- Cesar Chavez

2.  Summary-He was leader of Cali farm workers union and inspired people all over to stop buying grapes to support farm workers.

3. Implications of Research (Why is it important?)
He was once a farm worker and he led the farm workers union to get the farm workers better pay.

4.  Connection to The Grapes of Wrath
Although the grapes of wraith doesn't have any connection to Chavezs grape boycott, he did a lot to support the farm workers in California when no one else would.
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The Agricultural workers weren't being appreciated by their hard daily work and the owners didn't care if they stayed or if they just left the work behind without saying one word.

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Even though they were not considered "slaves", they were treated very similarly.

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Mexicans can't do anything and don't have as big dreams as the Americans. which the Mexicans don't deserve the land that the Americans were promised.

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These migrant workers were very poor and all they wanted was money to buy food.

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They were even called slaves and the were treated not as people but property who works for the business owners

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He wants them off his land and to stop taking their jobs, they are not welcome here. Even though the land is not being use and its just there pride as well as fear to not give a chance to the Okies.

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"the imported serfs were beaten and frightened and starved until some went home again, and some grew fierce and were killed or driven from the country."(5)

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"They imported slaves, although they did not call them slaves: Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos.  They live on rice and beans, the business men said.  They don’t need much."(4)

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"The Mexicans were weak and fled.  They could not resist, because they wanted nothing in the world as frantically as the Americans wanted land."(2)

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They imported slaves, although they did not call them slaves: Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos.  They live on rice and beans, the business men said.  They don’t need much.  They couldn’t know what to do with good wages.

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And while the Californians wanted many things, accumulation, social success, amusement, luxury, and a curious banking security, the new barbarians wanted only two things--land and food;

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"You goddamned squatters.  Pretty soon you’d think you owned it.  You’d be sore as hell.  Think you owned it.  Get off now."()

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1. Research contemporary examples of industry overtaking the average farmer.

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2. Research contemporary examples of industry supplanting morality/ethics.

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Essential Question #1

How and why does Steinbeck create a sense of "US vs THEM" in The Grapes of Wrath?

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Essential Question #2

How and why does Steinbeck establish this sense of HUMAN GREED throughout The Grapes of Wrath?  The owner of the farms are greedy and take advantage of the migrant workers because they weren't U.S citizens and couldn't speak out. Steinbeck describes it as ''slavery'' and the farm owners are just trying to make money