Great Depression In America

The Great Depression first started as early as 1928, but did not affect the United States until 1929. The Great Stock Market crash started the event of the Depression here in America, but was not the main cause to why it happened. During the early stages of the depression, President Hoover failed to help the economy and continued with his belief system of giving people the least help they needed, so they can earn themselves a rightful spot with pride, not with government’s help. The Great Depression was a very intense experience for us, even until today, the

The CCC was responsible for building roads, trails, and culverts with nothing more than strong backs, shovels, and picks. They used native materials such as sledgehammers, muscles, and sweat as well as local sandstone in which they had to procure themselves with star drills. They made improvements to America’s travel routes and also built 30,000 wildfire shelters. The CCC also gave thousands of young men jobs and by September, 500,000 young men had lived in the CCC camps. In an article, “Civilian Conservation Corps”, on History.com, “FDR believed that his civilian tree army would receive the rural unemployed and keep the youth off the streets.” Joining the CCC was optional and those who chose to stay received $30 dollars a month. They worked 8 hours and 35 minutes each day. Some of the civilians who joined the CCC also joined the military. From 1933 to 1942, the CCC employed over 3 million men. . (“Civilian Conservation Corps”

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew immediate action had to be taken to stop the economy from crumbling more than it already had. The New Deal enforced many new policies that helped the nation start fresh and halted any further damage to the economy. Many new legislations were put in place, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Civil Works Administration, the Federal Emergency Relief Act, and others intended to provide immediate jobs or financial assistance. These were all part of the relief stage, which was aimed to help those in urgent need of food, money and care. Founded in 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was one of the most successful legislations and it provided jobs for young men. It was a win-win because not only were the men employed and making money, but a part of their salary was sent home to their families, saving millions, and according to document 3, they began construction projects around America,

The Great Depression was the worst economic setback the U.S. has ever endured. It lasted ten long years from 1929 to 1939. It caused severe unemployment, the stock market to crash and massive deflation. The three main causes of the depression were the shutting down of banks, unwise consumer practices and the failure of the farming industry.

Civilian Conservation Corps refers to an organization that provided work relief specifically for unemployed youth coming from families receiving FERA aid.

The CCC was designed to garner trust from the people by giving them hope and jobs, which required repairing the damaged land. To avoid another environmental disaster, their primary work was to plant trees, as some people relied on their land to feed themselves. President Roosevelt saw a perfect solution to solve the two problems; he saw the barren land that needed to be replanted and the desperate men who could to the job. The CCC would initially hire a quarter of a million of young men (Roosevelt 5). To the masses, this idea of putting people back into action and earn a living for them and for their families gave hope to the future of America.

    The Great Depression significantly affected Americans lives, and even everyday activities. The unemployment rate reached an all time high for this time period. Instead of waking up to go to work, Americans were forced to search for jobs all day long because workplaces could not afford to to keep people employed.

The Great Depression started in 1929- 1939, it was the deepest and longest - lasting economic downturn when a stock market crashed. Many people have lost their jobs and they couldn’t afford bills. Birth rates dropped because people could not afford to care for children, and divorce rates dropped because people could not afford legal fees. The Great Depression caused many effects on the American people.

In the beginning, according to Robert Fletcher, director of CCC objectives and results report from 1938 digital archives. “There were close to 300,00 men enrolled”. These men lived and worked closed to their camps across the country building roads, dams, clearing land, planting trees, making trails, fire prevention, forestry service, lookout towers and infrastructures at national and state parks. Mt Nebo, one of Arkansas first state parks had CCC company 1780-V which was a group of veterans from southern states worked to build Mt Nebo’s historical cabins, hiking trails, fire pits, roads, pavilions and bridges. Four cabins and a bridge are now registered on the national historical places of Arkansas (see copy of document on next page). In all there were 105 projects and or camps across Arkansas according to archives on The legacy of the CCC. Each one of these projects by the CCC contributes to historical preservation, conservation, the organization and development of both Arkansas state parks and national park systems. There are thousands of pages written in dedication to these men and their efforts created by a social need to put men back to work during the depression. The CCC’s stories and legacies are well document through history, as it changed and formed our countryside. FDR claimed that as the country grew the population migrated across the land to reap its benefit, in doing so Americans also destroyed the land without regard for future. Another way to view the CCC project was an effort to revitalize what we had taken from the land and preserve it for future generations, in doing so it also provided jobs, education, skills, protection and

During the Great Depression, approximately 13-15 million people were unemployed. The CCC was able to employ 3 million people in the years 1933-1942. They were payed 30$ a month, and were given food, water, and shelter free of charge. The CCC set a standard for not being discriminatory, but in the South the selection agents were extremely biased. Despite this, the CCC reached a 10 percent African American hiring quota by 1936. The creation of this program also was for building good citizens through arduous outdoor labor. Roosevelt believed that working hard will develop a strong character and build discipline. Despite the hiring discrimination, this organization was extremely helpful to the people in the Great Depression not only economically, but

President Roosevelt created many jobs for the 25% of unemployed people to have enough money to support their families ("New Deal"). The New Deal was a promising campaign for the American people to create many jobs, not only for men, but also for women. One of the New Deal's most successful programs was the Civil Conservation Corps. "It addressed the pressing problem of unemployment by sending 3 million single men from age 17 to 23 to the nation's forests to work," ("New Deal"). Although Roosevelt created the New Deal and the Civil Conservation Corps, he also created the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) and the National Recovery Administration (NRA). These programs "were designed to address unemployment... And banning child labor" ("New Deal"). He also created the TVA, which improved common life and created an immense amount of jobs, ( "Stringing rural TVA transmission line"). All of the words said and actions spoken by the president at this time had a major effect on

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “alphabet soup” of social programs were designed to relieve the severe effects of the depression. One of these programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. Begun in 1933, the CCC was a program in which young men could enroll to work on outdoor projects and improvements such as construction of roads, bridges, reservoirs, dams, levees, and other conservation projects in State Parks and National Forests, as well as other rural areas. The enrollees could remain in the CCC for 18 months or until they had reached the age of twenty-four, whichever came first.

They write, “In response to the massive unemployment of the 1930’s, Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1933 introduced the first federal relief programs targeted at the poor and unemployed… he anticipated that the work relief jobs would boost consumer spending and thus increase demand for labor, which would then raise private employment and earnings.” (Neuman, Fishback, Kanton, pg 4) This quotes illustrates that programs such as these relief jobs, would not only be able to get the people back to work, but also get the economy up and running again.

The three stages of FDR’s new deal were relief, recovery. The CCC provided relief the AAA helped the economy bounce back and SEC helped prevent a Great Depression from happening again. The CCC or the Civilian Conservation Corps has created the CCC with an executive order on April 5, 1933. The CCC was part of his New Deal legislation, fighting 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 service for the youth. As the former governor of New York, he had a similar program on a smaller scale The United States Army helped to solve an early problem of transportation. Most of the unemployed men were in Eastern cities while much of the conservation work was in the West

In 1918, efforts to educate service men was intensified when the military established the Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA). The BDC article stated that, “The commission provided wholesome recreational activities for soldiers on the home front to prevent military men from seeking sexual relations with prostitutes or women deemed immoral (Katherine Bement Davis, Social Hygiene and the