THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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The Tennessee Valley Authority
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The Works Progress Administration
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The Social Security Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, with an executive order on April 5, 1933. The CCC was part of his New Deal legislation, combating high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects.
Detailed explanation-2: -The program’s primary goal was to bring poor young men out of America’s urban centers to rehabilitate their health and morale while contributing to their families’ economic well being. A secondary goal focused on the country’s needs for conservation in forests, farmland and parks.
Detailed explanation-3: -More than any other New Deal program, the CCC was Roosevelt’s brainchild and often referred to as his “pet.” He had a long-standing interest in conservation, and in a 1931 speech he had articulated the conservationist critique that had been animating the American movement for a half century.
Detailed explanation-4: -In its nine years of work, the CCC spent $109 million in Virginia, the fifth-largest state expenditure in the country.