Azana's Changes + the Reactions - AGRARIAN REFORMS

Question 1

What actions did the peasants take?
+ when?
+ where?

Answer 1

March 1936
Extremadura region
60,000 peasants took over 3,000 farms from aristocratic landowners

Question 2

What was the gov’s reaction to the peasants taking over farms?

Answer 2

actions encouraged by new gov
- who then took ownership of the land = similar to nationalisation

Question 3

What amount of peasants owned land previously vs. under new gov?

Answer 3

previous 4 years only 12,500 peasants given land
vs.
first half of 1936 = 72,000 new farm workers (yunteros) given agri land

Question 4

Change in tax levels?

Answer 4

high levels of taxation maintained on the rich
- many moved their money out of the country which impacted industry investment + workers’ wages

Question 5

How did the right react to all this?

Answer 5

all = further reason why the popular front gov aggravated the right + needed to be removed from office