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...

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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. ...

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