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Assignment:

Part 1

1. When did the US enter WW II and what was the general impact on farmers both during and after the war?

2. Why was food rationed during WW II and what kind of products were rationed?

3.. What was the AAA of 1933 all about and why did it come about?

• How was Henry A. Wallace involved and what was his background?
• Do you understand why some people disagreed with the concept?

4. What were some of the commodities the AAA paid farmers to limit?

• Why those seven?
• What were the issues with particularly pork and cotton?
• How did the government initially get their funding to pay the farmers?

5. How was the AAA revised in 1938?

6. What was FDR's New Deal? Be able to recognize the 15 New Deal programs that were shown in class.

7. When and why did the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) come about? What were the previous agency names prior to the SCS name?

8. What was Black Sunday versus Black Tuesday?

9. What was the TVA and EHFA and what states did they include? How did it benefit those in rural areas? What about REA?

10. How did the AAA help the south? Did it help everyone? What happened?

11. How did WW II affect southern agriculture?

12. In the North and elsewhere, why did part-time farming increase?

13. The Dust Bowl - where, how many acres, etc. How did the New Deal programs help?

14. What really helped the farmers prosper during the 1940's?

15. How did the discovery of the Ogallala help the Great Plains?

16. What was fast freezing and how did it impact agriculture (and canning)?

17. How did the specialty crop production in California change by 1935? Who was in control?

18. What was the Bracero Program?

19. The Taylor Grazing Act? Why was it important? Why did it come about?

20. What did the Resettlement Administration, then Farm Security Administration do in 1937 with poor producing farm ground?

21. Later, national grasslands were created? Why? Which one is in Kansas?

22. Why were many unions formed in the 1930's and 1940's? What were some of these unions? What was one of the first and what was unique about it?

23. What was the Emergency Price Control Act and the Steagall Amendment? How did they differ?

24. How and/or what did the government do to reduce the excess production of goods during the 1940's-?

25. How did the Korean War influence the surplus farm problem?

26. What was Public Law 480? What was another name for it? Intended and actual use, which made it somewhat controversial?

27. What was the Hill-Poage Act?

28. How and why did REA fund cooperatives and change America?

29. Who did technology help the least?

30. What were two big overall changes to farming which resulted from the AAA?

Part 2

1.  During the late 1900's (20th century), how did the south change? The north?
2. What replaced many of the black farmers during the mid-late 20th century? What happened to them?
3. Why were black farmers ignored and stayed in poverty?
4. How did foreign policy during this time period affect farmers?
5. How was the tobacco industry changed in the Connecticut Valley?
6. How did farmers in the north change how they marketed their vegetable crops?
7. Many areas of the county suffered from 'reverse flow'. What did this refer to?
8. Why did contract farming become important? Drawback?
9. What is suitcase farming?
10. In the Great Plains Region the advent of irrigation led to ? and ?
11. How did the term 'agribusiness' come about?
12. Why did insurance companies enter California agriculture?
13. When did Alaska and Hawaii join the Union?
14. Why was the U.S. interested in obtaining Alaska and Hawaii?
15. When Alaska joined the U.S., which commodities were focused on to produce for a period in that climate? What were the problems that were faced for agriculture production?
16. Negative Farming?
17. What were the main agriculture products in produced in Hawaii for many years, but are now disappearing?
18. How did the political power for agriculture change in the last 75 years or so (since at least WW II)
19. Who are the two large agriculture organizations which lobby for agriculture? How do their viewpoints differ and which political party does each primarily represent?
20. What was the Agriculture Act of 1956 and the two-part soil program?
21. What happened in 1964 that further reduce the lobbying and political power of rural areas and farmers?
22. How have price supports changed over the last half of the 20th century?
23. What was Nixon's Wage and Price Freeze and how did it affect agricultural products?
24. What was 'The Wreck'?
25. The 1980's Agriculture and Food Act did what to help farmers?
26. As horses disappeared and tractor usage took over, how did this change crop production and crop prices?
27. What were some downsides of using tractors?
28. Did cotton become mechanized as quickly as other crops? Why or why not? Which state was on the forefront of mechanized cotton harvesting?
29. Why did the number of cotton farmers decrease drastically in the 1970's?
30. How did the loss of the Bracero program influence crop production?
31. Be familiar with the agriculture organizations discussed in class; NFO, Farm Workers Association/United Farm Workers of America, AAM.
32. How did the populations change in the rural areas - who left and who settled there?
33. Was an agriculture degree not recommended to those heading to college?
34. Why did the growth of farms owned by women grow?
35. How did the types of small farms change?
36. Why do farmers keep trying to produce more when that usually results in lower prices?
37. In 1997, a lawsuit was filed for black farmers. Why and what was the result?