Roosevelt And The Great Depression
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While the Great Depression of the 1930’s proved devastating to the American economy, the efforts of Franklin D. Roosevelt turned the nation around and helped to improve the terrible conditions of the time. His “New Deal” plan did indeed stabilize the economy and encourage a more just and fa ....
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.... the AAA was a primary example of government intervention in order to improve the economy and better the nation. It established principles whereby the government would by up excess crops to reduce the market and increase the prices and would most often simply burn or destroy the food. Also, the government paid those who voluntarily decreased acreage in production. Furthermore, it provided funds for loans to farmers to meet their mortgage payments. Unfortunately, the AAA was struck down ....
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