Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
A Concept Map
Definition:
sought to raise crop prices by lowering production, which the government achieved by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded
Characteristics:
- government paid cotton growers $200 million to plow under 10 ill ion acres of their crop
- paid hog farmers to slaughter 6 million pigs
- upset many Americans (protested destruction of food when many were going hungry)
- helped raise farm prices
- put more money in farmers' pockets
Examples:
- plow 10 million acres of crops
- slaughter 6 million pigs
- leave acreage unseeded
Nonexamples:
- increasing crop growth
- decreasing crop prices