| 词条 | Tractorcade |
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Tractorcade was a 1978 and 1979 protest in Washington, D.C. by the American Agriculture Movement. EventsIn January 1979, nearly 3,000 farmers drove their tractors to Washington, D.C., many of them from thousands of miles away. The Carter administration agreed that the Farmers Home Administration would stop all foreclosures, but soon after the rally was over resumed foreclosures of farms with past due loans. [1]On February 5th, 1979, farmers arrived in Washington, D.C.; 17 tractors had been impounded. Police confined the tractors to the National Mall.[2] They blocked traffic, creating significant tie-ups.[3] A blizzard hit while they were in town, and then the tractors became useful as they were the only vehicles that could reliably travel through the snow, often delivering doctors and nurses to hospitals.[4] A group of Maryland farmers attempted to repair the damage to the Mall, by sowing grass seed.[2] Concern that traffic would be hopelessly tangled led DC area commuters to head to transit in record numbers. An estimated 277,000 trips were taken on the 5th, breaking the single--day record set in early January and topping 250,000 trips for the first time ever.[5] The record would last until the summer when the oil crisis caused an uptick in metro use. References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pXcqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BVkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3439,2179176&dq=american+agriculture+movement&hl=en|title= DC Farm Protestors Facing Fiscal Drought|work=The Pittsburgh Post Gazette|date=February 7, 1979|author=James P. Hertzog}} 2. ^1 {{cite news|last=Brasch|first=Sam|title=When Tractors Invaded D.C.|url=http://modernfarmer.com/2014/02/living-legacy-d-c-tractorcade-35-years-later/|accessdate=5 February 2014|newspaper=Modern Farmer|date=February 5, 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.jofreeman.com/conventions/farmers.htm |title=D.C. Police Corral Farmers and Tractors |publisher=Jofreeman.com |accessdate=2013-11-06}} 4. ^{{cite web|last=Roby |first=Marguerite |url=http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/tractorcade |title=Tractorcade | Smithsonian Institution Archives |publisher=Siarchives.si.edu |date=1979-02-05 |accessdate=2013-11-06}} 5. ^{{cite news |last1=Spencer |first1=Duncan |title=Farm Protest Costs Near $1 Million, Mall Sod Ruined |work=Washington Evening Star |date=9 February 1979}} External links
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