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? asked in EnvironmentConservation · 1 month ago

SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE?

What was the purpose of The Civilian Conservation Corps? 

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  • OTTO
    Lv 6
    1 month ago

    My uncle was in the CCC. They built trails. They built a lot of stuff.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    The other answerers are talking about the WPA, not the CCC. This is family history for me. My mother was a teenager during the Dust Bowl and lived in the middle of the Oklahoma panhandle.  

    The Civilian Conservation Core paid people to plant trees. And bushes in windrows and plants so bare dirt would not blow away. Much of the topsoil in the Great Plains blew away because of decades of farming after Europeans and settlers from the eastern states farmed it. 

    The CCC planted plants.  The tress and bushes and vegetation. The CCC planted windrows  in the 1930s and they have slowly died in the last 41 years because they were not maintained . I've watched it happen in northwest Oklahoma and the Oklahoma panhandle especially northwest of Okarche along Oklahoma state highway 3 all the way to Guymon and Boise City and along U.S. highways 54 and 64 into Kansas.  The WPA built the roads, rail roads, sidewalks and built  expanded electrical grids. The CCC did not build the roads. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    FDR inherited a Depression from Hoover and used the CCC as a make-work solution. He referred to it as "priming the pump". A relatively small amount of money injected into the economy would get spent. Say, for example, it was used for food. That gave money to the grocer and the butcher, who would pass it along to the farmers, who might pay back the banks for the money that they owed.

    At the same time, the CCC built infrastructure in the national parks and much of their work still exists today.

    Nowadays, presidential candidates always seem to promise that they will be spending money on infrastructure but not all of them do. Putting people to work has the advantage of giving them back some of their pride along with the money. OTOH, it costs more and, currently, would expose them to COVID-19. All in all, I think that most people would prefer a job to a stimulus check.

  • 1 month ago

    You really need to learn how to use a search engine if you plan to do anything on the internet. Finding this just took a couple of seconds. Stop relying on the site for such simple stuff.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservatio...

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    Jobs and infrastructure improvements.  The Civilian Conservation Corps was a work relief program that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression.

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