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Essay / Farmers and the New Deal - 678
Farmers during the Great Depression benefited from the “New Deal.” The New Deal was primarily focused on them and the government tried many ways and created many organizations to help them not be exploited as they had been in previous years. As Raymond Moley saw it, the first New Deal was radically different from normal American life. styles. This New Deal gave much more power to the central government, but it was a necessary evil, primarily in the economic realm of agriculture, as farmers were on the brink of anarchy. There was also no need to focus on reorganizing work in industry, but the main concern was getting farmers back into production and creating a market for industrial products in the cities. The main idea is to get farmers, the backbone of the country, to start working again and making a profit so that they can buy industrial equipment that will create a market in the cities. The second New Deal was very different from the first New Deal, this second New Deal did not follow through and take off like the first. The day after this new agreement ...