History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1517 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
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The idea
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of May nineteen thirty-three paid farmers to grow less, aiming to raise crop prices and so farm incomes.
In practice
More than four thousand local committees and three million participating farmers by the spring of nineteen thirty-four, the anchor counts.
Where people slip
Digital History calls it the nation's first system of agricultural price and production supports.
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