Agricultural Adjustment Act
New Deal program to restore agricultural prosperity in the United States during the Great Depression
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era. it was designed to raise agricultural prices by having fewer surpluses. The Government bought livestock to kill, and they paid farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land. The money for these subsidies was generated through a tax on companies which processed farm products. The Act created a new agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to oversee the distribution of the subsidies.[2][3][4]
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| Long title | An Act to relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agricultural purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agricultural indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes. |
| Enacted by | the 73rd United States Congress |
| Effective | May 12, 1933 |
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| Public law | 73-10 |
| Statutes at Large | 48 Stat. 31 |
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| Titles amended | 7 U.S.C.: Agriculture |
| U.S.C. sections created | 7 U.S.C. ch. 26 § 601 et seq. |
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References
change- ↑ Rasmussen, Wayne D., Gladys L. Baker, and James S. Ward, "A Short History of Agricultural Adjustment, 1933-75." Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 391 (March 1976), pg. 2.
- ↑ Agricultural Adjustment Act, Pub.L. 73-10, 48 Stat. 31, enacted May 12, 1933.
- ↑ Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. "Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Statement on Signing the Farm Relief Bill" May 12, 1933". The American Presidency Project. University of California – Santa Barbara. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
- ↑ Hurt, R. Douglas, Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century, (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002), 69.
Other websites
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- Bill in its entirety
- http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1639.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080409194401/http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/browse.cfm?MainCatID=34
- Public Law 73-10, 73d Congress, H.R. 3835, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
- A Message from FDR to Congress on the AAA
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (March 16, 1933). ""New Means to Rescue Agriculture" — The Agricultural Adjustment Act - March 16, 1933". Internet Archive. National Archives and Records Administration. pp. 74–79.
