Harry had a loving family, all the food he could imagine on his families farm, books to read, and an exceptional amount of land to play on. ... Instead, he went to work to help his family. Harry was never into farming but he quit his job and worked on the farm with his father. ... Through the trials and tribulations Harry showed his devotion to his family by quitting his job and helping on the farm. ... He did this to get a break from farm life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A normal family of five or six received a single room about 25 by 20 feet. ... Evacuees worked on farms which were government-owned or -leased farmlands. Resident farm workers produced most of the food consumed in the relocation centers. Most centers included farm program which included poultry, eggs, and pork. ... Residents worked in mess halls, in hospitals, on farms, internal police, and in construction, and road maintenance work. ...

• Word Count: 562
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) created farm regulations. ... This drop in production of crops was believed would keep farm prices high (Huff 375). ... During the 1930s more than 25,000 South Carolina tenant farmers gave up their farms to become day laborers or seek relief. But federal relief was meager--$10.49 a month in 1933 for white sharecropper families, $8.69 for blacks (Lander 126-128). ... The New Deal proffered hopes and opportunities for survival; and most families borrowed federal money to start farming again or went willingly to the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Aug...

• Word Count: 2580
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• Grade Level: High School

Abraham Lincoln was born and raised on a small farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. ... Abraham Lincoln worked very hard on the farm to help provide for his family. ... I believe because Kennedy was raised by a wealthy family and his father was well known led him to much of his success. Furthermore I feel that Kennedy merrily was riding on his families shirttail. ... On the other hand Kennedy was raised in a political family. ...

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The poet Dwight Okita had family who lived in the internment camps and migrated to Chicago after their captivity. Living in a large Japanese-American community, Okita was likely told of his family heritage and their plight during World War II. ... The Chinese were seen as cheap labor on farms and in factories and the labor unions resented it. ... Many of the people who relocated lost businesses or farms. ... One of the ironic points of the relocation was that many of the internees had family members fighting in the war for the United States. ...

• Word Count: 1275
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• Grade Level: High School

Workers and Farmers were unable to pay mortgage payments and lost their homes and farms. ... The AAA's purpose was to help farmers by reducing the production of staple crops so that it would raise farm prices. Farmers were paid to limit their crop production with funds raised through a tax on processors of Farm products. While this did increase farm income, people believed it was wrong for farmers to produce less at a time when more was needed. ... The needy were also being helped by many of the acts that were passed, Such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, which put young men of needy f...

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act was meant to raise farm income by raising commodity prices. ... Farm income rose for the first time since WWI. ... The Federal Emergency Relief Act allocated $500 million to states to give to needy families. ... The Resettlement Administration moved thousands of poor farm families from bad to good land and gave them equipment. ...

• Word Count: 929
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• Grade Level: High School

It also established a federal role in agricultural planning, price setting, and federal farm-aid based on parity pricing and subsidy. The AAA helped raise the average farm income and helped pushed up the prices of commodities. ... Thousands of tenant and sharecropper families were forced of the land and migrated to California and were called "Okies" They lived in poor living conditions very few of the migrants found work except in low paid agricultural laborers. ... Many farm families were given direct emergency relief by the Resettlement Administration. ...

• Word Count: 1015
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• Grade Level: High School

Congress also instituted farm relief, tightened banking and finance regulations, and founded the Tennessee Valley Authority (New Deal 1993). ... The Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act was aimed at helping to save farms from going under due to bank foreclosure. ...

• Word Count: 3128
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Farm families are an example who suffered during the Great Depression. ... Roosevelt made new farm policies under the New Deal, which helped the landowners, but hurt the tenant farmers and sharecroppers. ...

• Word Count: 773
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The problem with this was that in order to receive funding from the AAA, one needed to own their farm because of this sharecroppers and tenant farmers did not directly see any income from the AAA. ... No person would be allowed to have a personal net worth of more than three hundred times the average family fortune. ... The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) provided low interest mortgages that enable more American families to be able to purchase their own homes and become homeowners for the first time. ...

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It was crazy to read how the San Jule family had it all, an extremely wealthy family would become poor within months. ... The numbers don't lie 6,000 banks closed wiping out 9,000,000 saving accounts, 2,600 schools' closed, hunger suffering widely spread and 400,000 farms lost. Hoover set the way for FDR's new deal in some ways like the Federal Farm Board, which temporarily had farmers not sell crops. ... This picture shows these two men in a desired need of a job to support their family. 43,000 marchers, 17,000 of them were WWI veterans gathered in Washington D.C. demanding ...

• Word Count: 969
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• Grade Level: High School

Along with these business problems was the farm crisis in the west. ... The government implemented laws, which banned more than two people from the same family to be on the government payroll. ... Many men also abandoned their families because they were ashamed of themselves (Wiegand, 248). ... One of the events that occurred during the depression was the farm crisis. Many farmers lost their farms because there were droughts, which caused dust to accumulate. ...

• Word Count: 2323
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The Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act suspended mortgage foreclosures for three years, and moved farmers with small amounts of poor land to better areas. ... Poverty levels soared, especially in the mid-west, where many families lost their farms due to falling prices of crops and a drought that had lasted for years. ...

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Wholesale and retail food dropped forty percent, and farm prices dropped over sixty percent. About four million families were left unemployed. ... The farm area were affected as well as the urban cities. ... Miniature golf became another favorite form of entertaining which provided fun for the whole family. ...

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The use of labor saving machinery in factories and on farms enabled workers to produce more goods faster and less expensively. ... Low-income families could afford to buy an inexpensive Model T, which Henry Ford developed in 1908. ... Droughts and dust storms caused by poor tillage practices devastated farms and ranches of the Great Plains; therefore, causing a great exodus of its inhabitants to other, more fertile, lands. ... A large number of the travelers settled down in this area and built farms and ranches. ...

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The New Deal also established Welfare, which gave struggling families some relief. ... For the first time in its history, the American government paid farmers not to farm, in order to cut down on the surplus they yielded, thus raising the prices and their profits. ...

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In many cases, the government provided loans to the banks to relieve the cause of early foreclosure on home, farm, railroad, insurance company, and other business loans. ... While not striving for equitable distribution of total wealth, in his plan Long envisioned that each American family would be guaranteed a basic fortune of no less than one-third of the average American fortune, which at the time, amounted to $15,000. Further, the plan was to provide for an annual income for each family. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Only one farm in 50 had electricity and half its population of 2.5 million people was living below the poverty line. ... By 1943, for example, 80 % of the valley farms had converted from kerosene lamps to electricity and farmers were doing better than they had ever done before. ...

• Word Count: 2194
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Many government programs that exist today have roots in the New Deal: modern welfare programs, farm subsidies, Americorp, minimum wage, the FDIC, Columbia River Reclamation Project and Social Security. ... The Home Owners Loan Corporation lent money to families so they could pay off their mortgages. ...

• Word Count: 1049
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The draft board would go through each citizens "profile" and would take into consideration their job, their health, and their families before drafting them to the war. ... As more men left to fight for our country more women were called into work for factories, farms, and even baseball. ...

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A farm boy from the piney woods of North Louisiana, he was colorful, charismatic, and controversial. ... The confiscated funds, in turn, would be distributed to the people, guaranteeing every American family an annual income of no less than $2,000, in Long's words more than enough to buy "a radio, a car, and a home." ...

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Mellon, that business was sound and that a new era of prosperity was just about to begin but by 1932 hundreds of banks had failed, hundreds of mills and factories had closed, mortgages on farms and houses were being foreclosed in large numbers, and more than 10 million workers were unemployed1. ... Members of the Astor, Vanderbilt, Whitney and Rockefeller families were found at many of these clubs. ...

• Word Count: 1986
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• Grade Level: High School

. $25 of it had to be sent home to family. ... The new deal did achieve a significant amount, but there were some areas that did not achieve what Roosevelt had hoped they would, such as the Farmers Relief Act, which I explained earlier, was partly successful, but also with that many farm labourers lost their jobs. ...

• Word Count: 1563
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• Grade Level: High School