new deal

Question 1

agriculture adjustment act

Answer 1

recovery: paying subsidies to farmers to reduce oversupply and boost prices

Question 2

works progress administration

Answer 2

relief: public works such as construction or the arts that were government funded and provided employment

Question 3

wpa implications

Answer 3

• spent money by not using cost-efficient technology so they could hire more people
• offered employment to millions during the depression
• modern day active use of efficient schools, damos, roads, bridges, etc.
• shut down in june 1943 with unemployment at only 2%

Question 4

aaa implications

Answer 4

• landowners kept subsidies and didn’t distribute to farmers causing poverty esp for black sharecroppers
• landowners bought new machinery providing less work for farmers
• act was deemed unconstitutional in 1936 due to u.s. v butler saying it burdened processors with taxes