AAA: Agricultural Adjustment Administration

Question 1

What did the Agricultural Adjustment Act do?

Answer 1

• authorized the federal government to try and raise farm prices by setting production quotas for major crops and paying the farmers to plant less.
• in 1933, as part of the policy, the government order the slaughter of 6 million pigs.

Question 2

Was the Agricultural Adjustment Act successful?

Answer 2

It succeed in significantly raising farm prices and incomes but not all farmers benefited. However not all benefited.

Question 3

Who benefited from the Agricultural Adjustment act and who did not?

Answer 3

Benefits flowed to property-owning farmers, ignoring the large number who worked on land owned by others. The policy of the AAA of paying land owners to grow less encouraged the eviction thousands of poor tenants and sharecroppers. Many joined the rural exodus to cities or farms of the West Coast.

Question 4

What happened to the AAA in January 1936?

Answer 4

It was declared an Unconstitutional exercise of power over local economic activities in the court case United States v. Butler.

Question 5

When did the AAA start?

Answer 5

1933

Question 6

Was the AAA part of Roosevelt’s first or second New Deal?

Answer 6

1st; it was part of what was known as “The Hundred Days”to get thing going again