Question

Question: What was the central criticism of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?

Responses:

The government was destroying food at a time when citizens were starving.

Farmers were receiving more money than people working in other occupations.

Farmers were growing more crops, even though there was a surplus in the market.

The government was forcing land owners to hire sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

Answer 1

The first option. The central criticism was that the government paid farmers to destroy crops and slaughter livestock at a time when many people were hungry.