The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was established in 1933 to provide jobs for unemployed young men while preserving the country's natural resources. The CCC employed over 500,000 unmarried men between 18-25 years old from families on government relief to work on environmental projects like preventing erosion. Run by the U.S. Army, the CCC aimed to both reduce unemployment and preserve nature through constructing things like fire lookout towers and working to build the Blue Ridge Parkway.

1. Environmental Improvement Programs
(Designed to provide jobs for people who were unemployed)

2. CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
One other way the New Deal put people back to work so they could buy food, clothes, and a
place to live was to work on jobs that helped the envrionment.
Project to stop erosion
One organization
started to do this was
called the Civilian
Conservation Corps
(CCC). The Civilian
Conservation Corps
started on March 31,
1933.

3. The CCC had a two purposes (reason why they
did it):
1) to reduce unemployment for young
men, and
2) preserve the country's nature.
“Chow” line in a camp for CCC workers
Tower built by CCC Workers to
Watch for forest fires

4. The CCC put to work 500,000 rural, unmarried, poor boys between the ages of
eighteen through twenty-five, whose families were on government relief (already
getting help from the Government).

5. 5
Camp used during construction of BlueRidge Parkway in VirginiaCamp used during construction of BlueRidge Parkway in Virginia

6. 6
CCC Camp InspectionCCC Camp Inspection
CCC was run by the U.S. Army. This picture is from sometime around 1935. What
would some of these young men be doing in 6 years???

7. 6
CCC Camp InspectionCCC Camp Inspection
CCC was run by the U.S. Army. This picture is from sometime around 1935. What
would some of these young men be doing in 6 years???