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Harden Review
Term | Definition |
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boll weevil | reduced GA's cotton acreage by 2.6 million during the 1920's |
2.6 million | amount that the boll weevil reduced GA's cotton acreage during the 1920's |
Laissez-faire | The idea that doing nothing to help solve the country’s economic problems |
laissez-faire | a policy that allows businesses to operate with very little interference from the government |
Agricultural Adjustment Administration | New Deal program that paid farmers to NOT grow crops |
drought | slowed the boll weevil, but created water shortages and forced 1000s of farmers to leave GA |
Eugene Talmadge | GA Governor who spoke out against the New Deal |
High tariffs | made it difficult for countries to sell their goods in the U.S. |