The U.S.Federal Government’s Agricultural Policy And Its Evaluation,1921-1933

For the United States’ agriculture, the year of1920was the last year of its "golden age"after World War One. As the economy recovered in Europe and the United States went intothe era of modernization, urbanization, traditional economic sectors represented by agriculturebegan to decline, the agricultural depression lasted for a long time. In the same year, the firstPresident of the United States election after WWI also began. The election is conservative andprogress, in the first match is liberalism and nationalism. Because of multiple influence ofWW I, Americans chose the former, the conservative republicans host the White House,opened in1921-1933republican administration in a row, the familiar laissez-faire has beenaffecting the federal government’s decision.Facing up to the agricultural crisis, the parties have put forward the solution, the firstrepublican Harding administration issued the ford’sFordney-McCumberTariff Act.ArticulturalCredit Act of1923, such as affect agriculture from the side, but it failed to ease the plight ofagriculture. Instead the folk strength but showed its solving agricultural depression wisdomand determination.During Coolidge Administration, agriculture sections did not enjoy the "Coolidgeprosperity", which was still in depression. McNary-Haugen Bill which is the most feasiblewas refused by the president for the bill doesn’t conform to the principle of laissez-faire dusty.The mistake to raise tariffs for solving the agricultural problems had repeatedly been thepractice of the government.Involvement by the great depression, agricultural crisis intensified in1929. Therepublican propaganda laissez-faire slogan began to lose energy. President Hoover tookvoluntary joint measures to against the crisis, the selling of Agricultural products, AgriculturalMarketing Act do play a certain effect, but Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act belied theMcNary-Haugen Bill which is of Agricultural Marketing Act. Although these measures whichstrengthen the strength of state intervention in the agricultural economic activity, have playedan important role in delaying crisis expanded, but were still unable to cure the ills ofagriculture. Public support for the presidential election of1932is the thorough adjudication torepublican rule12years, also shows that the national comprehensive intervention in theeconomic life is imperative. Though republicans did not solve the fundamental problem of agriculture in their12years’ efforts, the agricultural policies are commented with both praise and blame, but for thePresident to implement a new economic policy provides a wealth of experience and lessons.The long-term game between all kinds of folk progressive political power and the federalgovernment demonstrated that such a fact: liberalism had already outdated, state interventionmust come and will come. It laid the ideological basis and theoretical basis of the New Deal.In the process of agricultural policy game during1921-1933, American mainstreamimplemented the transformation from individual liberalism to collective cooperation, a radicalshift in national progressive liberalism.