USA HISTORY

THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the CCC & WPA attempting to address?
A
High unemployment
B
Excessive stock market speculation
C
Increased use of credit
D
Limited income of senior citizens
Explanation: 

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: -The Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933 mandated that the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nation’s forests, parks, and fields.

Detailed explanation-4: -As part of the New Deal, the president and Congress established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). These programs put millions of Americans to work and provided the country with many benefits, including parks, roads, buildings, and artwork.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most of the enrollees for the CCC were from rural areas where unemployment was often the worst, and they were often uneducated and unskilled. The WPA was more generally targeted towards cities and towns, though it did complete work in some rural areas as well.

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