THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Excessive stock market speculation
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High unemployment
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Increased use of credit
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Overproduction of goods
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Public Works Administration (PWA) reduced unemployment by hiring the unemployed to build new public buildings, roads, bridges, and subways. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) employed hundreds of thousands of young men in reforestation and flood-control work.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created emergency relief agencies, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to address the severe economic problems of the early 1930s.
Detailed explanation-3: -What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed to address? High unemployment.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. The CCC combined FDR’s interests in conservation and universal service for youth.
Detailed explanation-5: -Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. The CCC or C’s as it was sometimes known, allowed single men between the ages of 18 and 25 to enlist in work programs to improve America’s public lands, forests, and parks.