The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Register to read the introduction… The Civilian Conservation Corps sent 250,000 young men to work camps to perform reforestation and conservation tasks. This removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, and provided money for families. [ (New Deal Programs) ] With the creation of this program President Roosevelt brought together the nation’s young men and the land in an effort to save them both. [ (Civilian Conservation Corps CCC) ] President Roosevelt proposed to recruit thousands of unemployed young men, enlist them in a peacetime army, and send them to battle the erosion and destruction of the nation’s natural resources. [ (Civilian Conservation Corps CCC) ] More than any other New Deal program, the CCC is considered to be an extension of President Roosevelt’s personal philosophy. [ (Civilian Conservation Corps CCC) ] The CCC, which also became known as Roosevelt’s Tree Army, was credited with renewing the nation’s decimated forests by planting an estimated three billion trees from 1933 to 1942. [ (Civilian Conservation Corps CCC) ] This was crucial, especially in states affected by the Dust Bowl, where reforestation was necessary to break the wind, hold water in soil, and hold soil in place. [ (Civilian Conservation Corps CCC) ] So far reaching was the CCC’s reforestation program that it was responsible for more than half the reforestation, public and private, accomplished in the nation’s history. [ (Civilian Conservation Corps CCC) ] Eligibility requirements for the CCC carried several simple stipulations. Congress required U.S. citizenship only. [ (Civilian Conservation Corps CCC) ] Sound physical fitness was mandatory because of the hard physical labor required. [ (Civilian Conservation Corps CCC) ] Men had to be unemployed, unmarried, and between the ages of 18 and 26, …show more content…
[ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] FDR created NRA and was passed by Congress on June 16, 1933. [ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] The NRA program was designed to promote recovery and reform, minimum wages, and forbid child labor in industry. [ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] For a little while Title I of the NRA prescribed the drafting and establishment of a code system of fair competition for every sort of industry. [ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] These codes had the force of law and were exempt from anti-trust provisions. [ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] FDR was given the executive power to approve of new codes for NRA, therefore giving the president the authority to make laws, and was free to write codes himself where none existed. [ (Eidllaew) ] American industrialists however did not like NRA because it didn’t allow them to raise prices or cut wages once they were in recovery. [ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] Also more criticism was made when it was shown that larger industrial manufacturers were shaping codes to suit their own priorities and excluding laborers and consumers. [ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] The Title I of NRA was overturned on May 27, 1935 by the U.S. Supreme Court. [ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] The Court had argued that the act gave FDR more power than the congress had a right to give and that the congress had no right to dictate the state wages and hours worked because those factors affect costs and prices and therefore affects interstate commerce. [ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] By the time Title I was overturned, more than 700 industries had been codified, 4 million unemployed people had been put into industrial jobs, and nearly 23 million workers were under codes. [ (National Industrial Recovery Act) ] It is largely felt that by the time Title I was overturned that it had already run its course and was no longer needed. [