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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

 

 

 

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was enacted in May 1933. However in 1936, the Supreme Court attempted to call the AAA unconstitutional but within weeks the law was reinstated. 

The purspose of AAA was to control  crop yields because  low crop prices had harmed American farmers and reducing supply was a clear way to increase prices. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The AAA controlled the supply of 7 "basic crops"

-Corn

-Wheat 

-Cotton

-Rice

-Peanuts

-Tobacco

-Milk  

How Did It Achieve Its Purpose?

The AAA limited crop production and achieved its purpose by compensating farmers for leaving land fallow. 

Achievements:

North Carolina farmers benefited most however, African American tenant farmers with small farms were hurt by the act.

"Revived hope" in the farming communities. 

 

Successful?

Yes, largely in part to the fact that economists and engineers administered the act. It resulted in the income of the average farmer rising 30 percent  within Roosevelts first term as President. This was extremely sucessful in North Carolina. 

RECOVERY 

"The AAA did not end the Depression and drought, but the legislation remained the basis for all farm programs in the following seventy years of the twentieth century"

-Farming in the 1930's

  1. Long term.

  2. This was becuase it was a basis for farming programs for the next 70 years.

  3. This was liberal.

Picture Citations:

http://uhxv.finomdh.top/a/agricultural-adjustment-act/

https://www.pinterest.com/carissambreyer/agricultural-adjustment-act/

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/619282536870182912

http://www.fasttrackteaching.com/burns/Unit_9_1930s/Unit9_AAA.html

Citations- 

Brinkley, Alan. Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. S.l.: Mcgraw-Hill Education, 2015. Print.

 

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