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Agricultural Adjustment Act and Huey Long

Agricultural Adjustment Act and Huey Long. By: Alex Schaben. Before Agricultural Adjustment Act. Surplus in crops Fell per bushel. Life of Farmers. Financial Mortgage. Agricultural Adjustment Act. 1933 New Deal Paid farmers to reduce farm area, around 30%.

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Agricultural Adjustment Act and Huey Long

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  1. Agricultural Adjustment Actand Huey Long By: Alex Schaben

  2. Before Agricultural Adjustment Act • Surplus in crops • Fell per bushel

  3. Life of Farmers • Financial • Mortgage

  4. Agricultural Adjustment Act • 1933 • New Deal • Paid farmers to reduce farm area, around 30%

  5. Aftermath of Agricultural Adjustment Act • Reduced crops • Price • Stable • 2nd Agricultural Adjustment Act replaced the first one. • Because the first one was unconstitutional

  6. Huey Long • Senator of Louisiana • Created Share the Wealth Program • Wanted attract people to this program around the world

  7. Huey Long • Criticized the New Deal because they weren’t distributing the wealth. • He wanted heavy tax on wealth and large handouts on the poor • He wanted no one to earn more then a million and no less then 4,000

  8. Websites • http://stories.mnhs.org/stories/mgg/resources/glossary.do?invariant=aaa • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act • http://www.hueylong.com/ • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlongH.htm

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