During the Great Depression, the unemployment rate was at 25% and the stock market was down 90% and it wasn’t the government's job to help out it was the states or churches responsibility. Franklin D. Roosevelt on his first hundred days as president helped save the country by creating the Civilian Conservation Corps or the CCC to help the nation reduce its poverty/unemployment rate of the Great Depression. Fire, floods, drought, erosion was affecting the nations agriculture and crops. The CCC was created to preserve and help the nation’s natural resources. It only took three months to get 250,000 young men out in the camps. Today they are considered one of the first environmentalist organizations. To work for the CCC it was required that they
