THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELTS NEW DEAL
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Question
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act tackled the farming crisis. Which statement is untrue?
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Farmers were encouraged to grow FEWER crops and so put prices up!
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6 million piglets were slaughtered.
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It continued until the Second World War
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It did not help black sharecroppers as they did not own their own land
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase.
Detailed explanation-2: -Its goal was the restoration of prices paid to farmers for their goods to a level equal in purchasing power to that of 1909–14, which was a period of comparative stability.
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