Diverse farms consisting of livestock, produce, and various other crops helped farmers of this region fare the storm better than those who relied solely on a single product farm. (Tweton 24) Various farm programs that arose out of the Farm Credit Association (FCA) and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) allowed farmers of Minnesota to take advantage of drought relief and crop and feed loans. ... Offered to residents of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, the Matanuska colony in Alaska provided extremely disadvantaged families the chance to start anew in a period of time w...

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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 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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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. ...

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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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" (Link 300) The WPA would accomplish most of its goals in alleviating significant portions of unemployment, but it would also serve the Roosevelt administration well as "workers and their families on WPA rolls tended to support an administration that had befriended them.... Another round of Acts was passed in 1937 including the Wagner-Steagall National Housing Act and the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act. ... " (Link 309) The Bankhead-Jones would assist poorer tenant farmers in purchasing land for farm use, while the Housing Act would address and bring federal help to improve...

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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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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. ...

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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. ...

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. $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. ...

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