Critical Thinking Questions   Home       If you'd like to print out this page, click the Print button above. Alternatively, you may click the printer icon on your browser's toolbar, or choose File>Print from the menu.     The Bonneville Dam project came under the Public Works Administration within the Roosevelt administration. What resources did this project seek to harness and distribute? What kinds of goals did these types of Public Works projects accomplish and who benefited from them? Think about the communities surrounding the Bonneville Dam. What was the impact in terms of economics and development for these communities? For the local Native Americans? The Bonneville Dam, like the Grand Coulee dam also on the Columbia River, aimed to make electric power affordable and available to all people in the region (Pacific Northwest). How do you think this changed the lives of the regional populations, in the late 1930's? What do you think most Americans felt and thought about the massive public works projects going on during Roosevelt's era?