apr 6, 1933 - CCC Founded (Apr. 1933)

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Hundred Days Congress creates this; Popular New Deal agency; Provided employment in gov't camps for ~3 mil young women who might turn to crime; Work included reforestation, fire-fighting, flood control, swamp drainage; Recruits had to help parents by sending home most of pay; Human resources & natural resources conserved, not many complaints on "militarizing" youth; >200 mill trees planted on prairies by this organization --> helped farmers

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