It gave the government the power to try to raise farm prices by setting production quotas and paying farmers to plant less food.- Seemed ridiculous to hungry Americans to pay farmers to not provide food and only property owning farmers actually saw the benefits of the Act (particularly affected African Americans poorly).- Supreme Court struck down the Act in U.S. vs Butler due to direct government intervention in economy
A. Gold rush
Everyone believed California had TONS of gold which turned out to be false.
Answer:
Fear of great depression
Explanation:
many believed that after world war II and the subsequent drop in military funding it may bring back the times of the great depression. Instead, consumer demand fueled exceptionally strong economic growth in post-world-war II. With the government no longer needing munitions and soldiers the private economy boomed.
