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  • Shenandoah National Park

    The Spirit of the Mountain

    • Type: Distance Learning
    • Locations: Shenandoah National Park
    • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
    • Subject(s): Social Studies
    A historical, sepia photograph of a man looking away from the camera into a field.

    This interactive program connects the social, economic, geographic, and political history of the 1920s and 1930s with the establishment of Shenandoah National Park and the people whose lives were impacted.

    • Type: Lesson Plan
    • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
    • Subject(s): Social Studies
    a dozen kids and a dog posed in front of wall tents

    The New Deal reform, recovery, and relief programs changed the relationship between American’s and their government in revolutionary ways. The Resettlement Administration (RA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) were programs to get displaced families off relief. More than eighty years after the Matanuska Colony was established much of it remains to tell the story of the New Deal resettlement program in Alaska.

Last updated: July 27, 2023

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