HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, National Industrial Recovery Act
16 Mar 2016
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Fdr got congress to pass 15 major pieces of legislation o. Agricultural adjustment act (aaa) - est. national agricultural policy. Federal emergency relief act (fera) - national relief program. National industrial recovery act - set up system of industrial self-government, o o o o o o o o o o o o o established public works administration. New deal: enormously popular among some, very controversial among others. Based on the idea that centrally managing production would help trigger recovery. Paid farmers not to grow any crops, overproduction, giant subsidies) Slaughtering livestock, only got farmers to grow a certain amount (e. g. 20% of the crops need to be grown) Workers were supposed to get some of the government money, didn"t always happen irl. More help for owners companies to rural poor. Paved way for agriculture to become most heavily subsidized sector of us economy.
