Late 19th and Early 20th Century Texas Online Practice
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Question
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“What bothered me about the Roosevelt time was when they come out with this business that you had to plow up a certain amount of your crop, especially cotton. I didn’t understand, [be]cause it was good cotton. And seein[g] all this cattle killed . . . I’d see these farmers, . . . and they didn’t have the food to feed these cattle, and there was drought, so they had these cattle drove up and killed by the hundreds . . .”
—Emma Tiller, Texas sharecropper
Which New Deal agency’s actions were described by Emma Tiller in her interview?
(1 point)
Responses
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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1 answer
The actions described by Emma Tiller in her interview relate to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). The AAA was established as part of the New Deal to stabilize agricultural prices by reducing overproduction, which involved plowing under crops and, in some cases, culling livestock. Therefore, the correct response is:
the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
