How Did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) Affect Poor Sharecroppers

question 78

Multiple Choice

How did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) affect poor sharecroppers?

• A) It often led to their eviction since prosperous landowners used subsidies to buy more efficient machinery.
• B) By raising the prices of their crops, it increased the share for sharecroppers and improved their living conditions.
• C) The AAA completely ignored sharecroppers, and as a result they could only watch as subsidies for big farms depressed price levels.
• D) The AAA imposed strict rules of conduct on landlords, which helped improve the civil rights situation for southern blacks.

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