USA HISTORY

THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which New Deal program was created for young men ages 18 to 25 whose purpose was to plant trees on public lands?
A
Tennessee Valley Authority ((TVA)
B
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
C
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
D
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Explanation: 

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 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-3: -Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), (1933–42), one of the earliest New Deal programs, established to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression by providing national conservation work primarily for young unmarried men.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.

Detailed explanation-5: -Days after becoming the 32nd President of the United States, Roosevelt outlined plans to put young men to work in the nation’s forests, parks, and range lands. He called it the Emergency Conservation Work program, but it soon became known as the CCC – the Civilian Conservation Corps.

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