Unit 7
Activity 1
Highways that shaped America
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1Driving from coast to coast
Map of the Lincoln Highway and Route 66.
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The “mother road”
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HIGHWAY 66 is the main migrant road. 66 – the long concrete path across the country, waving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi to Bakersfield – over the red lands and the gray lands, twisting up into the mountains, crossing the divide and down into the bright and terrible desert, and across the desert to the mountains again, and into the rich California valleys.
66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there. From all these the people are in flight, and they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight.
66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there. From all these the people are in flight, and they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight.
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Questions
1
Why was long-distance travel by car almost impossible before the creation of the Lincoln Highway? What made it suddenly possible?
2
List reasons why Route 66 became such a famous and popular road. What purposes did it serve at different moments in history?
3
How does Steinbeck describe Highway 66? What does this reveal about the people who traveled on it?
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Background check
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Pick out important dates in the videos and create a
timeline of the development of American road travel.
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