The New Deal laws and regulations affected banking, the stock market, industry, agriculture, public works, relief for the poor and conservations of resources. After making laws and regulations for the rest FDR didn’t forget the farmers and agriculture. On May 12, Congress passed the AAA or the Agricultural Adjustment Act. The act had 2 goals: to help raise farm prices quickly, and to control production so that farm prices could stay up over the long term. In the AAA’s first year the supply of food outstripped the demand.
The shortage of water burned up the crops the minute they sprouted. Agriculture accounts for about 70% of water withdraws worldwide, increasing to over 90% in developing countries. Water is also necessary for the production of our food, the natural fibers of our clothing, biofuels and other goods based on agricultural raw materials. The average farmer feeds 150 people a day, and with the decrease of water means the number of people fed will decrease. Farmers today have spent thousands of dollars to update their irrigation practices.
To what extent did the policies of Sergei Witte address the problems facing Russia at the end of the nineteenth century? Russia faced many problems at the end of the nineteenth century. Under Minister of Finance Ivan Vyshnegradskii there had been famine because of high taxes on consumer goods which had forced peasants to sell more and more grain. The government were slow to act and, although they eventually enforced a ban on grain exports, 350,000 died of starvation or disease. Economically and industrially Russia was also falling far behind many other Western countries at the time, like Britain and Germany.
Stalin achieved most of his aims; Grain production rose to nearly 100 million tonnes in 1937, although the numbers of animals never recovered. Russia sold large quantities of grain to other countries; this of course made a huge difference to the economy in Russia. A colossal 17 million people left the countryside to go to work in the towns this was part of industrialisation which helped to improve the economy. The kulaks were eliminated, this was one Stalin’s main aims and finally, the peasants were closely under the government's control, which pleased Stalin greatly. There were many failures in collectivisation, particularly in the initial phases - output fell in the 1930s largely for three reasons; the peasants resented the state taking their land, machinery and livestock, so they did not work as hard and put more effort into their private plots, where they could keep any profit generated - who wouldn't?
Remarkable Changes; 1936……………..Slides 10-11 VII.Bibliography………………………………….Slide 12 Introduction Important historical events that took place in Salinas such as the Great Depression and Dust Bowl heavily affected the novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck Is now the county seat of the Monterey County, California. Geography • • • • Lies on the Salinas River Founded in 1856 Produces agricultural goods Birthplace of John Steinbeck Population Reached 10,263 by the year 1930 The population was expected to continue to grow as the area was very advantageous One of the major factors in the increase in population was the expanding agricultural industry However, new residents were not always welcome as they were refugees that were drawn in due to the depression Dust Bowl Migrants Settled in labor camps on the east of Salinas to work at the agricultural industries alongside Filipinos Their coming concerned preexisting residents as they did not want their belongings stolen or endangered Leaders of the agricultural industries opposed labor camps as they thought it would be a source of disease and would easily attract Communists Life in Salinas in the 1930s Many advantages Weather Agriculture Building programs Dust Bowl migrants settled in Alisal, East Salinas Labor camps Filipinos, laborers Life in Salinas in the 1930s Bothered local residents Didn’t want belongings stolen May attract Communists Disease source Elimination of labor camps Violence and anger strikes September 4, 1936 Salinas Lettuce
How does Steinbeck show the historical context of the 1930s in the opening chapter? In 1929 there was a famous day that occurred in late October, which was nicknamed ‘Black Tuesday’… This was the Wall Street stock market crash. It led to the great depression, because the country lost 10 billion US dollars and left 15 million unemployed. This was all because of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ in which America spent a whole heap of money after the First World War. Because of all this, many people moved to California because of easy work on the farmland and such.
Wages rose how ever there were too few goods on which to spend money. Also the creation of collective farms essentially destroyed kulaks as a class and this disruption led to a famine. I think that over all the first five year plan was not a success in strengthening the soviet economy because a lot of the targets set were not achieved for example the production of coal were 35.4; oil was 11.7 and steel 4 million tonnes. The actual target of these was double the amount produced. I think it was successful in the sense it increased urbanisation, several gains were obtained in heavy industry and wages rose.
Since it occurred during the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl migration became significant due to the riskiness in relocation because of such high unemployment rates. So, in the context of very low internal migrations in America at this time, the Dust Bowl Migration really stands out. However, apart from the fame, the migration was misnamed because most of the people migrating weren’t victims of the dust; instead they were victims of drought and depression. Despite of the critical distance, 200,000-400,000 farmers- out of the 3 million- from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri traveled as families to California. The push factors of their homeland- no arable land for crops, contaminated water, and no money- caused the farmers and their families to leave .Then California’s pull factors, such as harvest labor job opportunities, attracted these refugees of depression.
From the 9th to the 13th century, known as the Medieval Warm Period, brought about prosperous grain agriculture for the people of the world (NOAA, 2009). Grains and cereals were a part of their main staple. But when cooling trends started to appear in the beginning of the Little Ice Age, these grain crops began to fail. As a result of this, people were now faced with serious issues of famine. During the Little Ice Age 1.5 million people died in Europe from the cold or by famine (Cambou, 2005).
Sarah David Period 5 U.S. History October 15, 2012 Industrialization Essay In 1860 to 1915, industrialization had a great impact on American society. Natural Resources helped the growth, thick forests were cut down for lumber, and they also drilled the first oil well in 1859. There were coal mines along the east coast. During 1881 750,000 immigrants came to America year, and by the 1900s over a million were coming a year. According to document 8, living conditions for immigrant workers in the United States was poor; they stayed in small rooms, with little resources.