Title: The New Deal and Three R's - The Great Depression
Headings: President FDR's New Deal and the Three R's
President FDR's New Deal and the Three R's
Relief
Recovery
Reform

Content: The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) and WPA (Works Progress Administration were two programs that created new jobs for unemployed Americans and began to jump-start the economy's gradual recovery. CCC, or the Civilian Conservation Corps, was created in March of 1933. It gave young men opportunities to work and stay out of trouble, which was very important to FDR. Not only this, but the CCC planted millions of trees in areas where the environment was lacking them in places where there was deforestation or forest fires. Outdoor labor in the CCC improved the environment by reforestation, with over 3 million members throughout it's duration. The men pictured above were part of the CCC. The CCC gave jobs to many young men to better the environment and help the economy recover by lowering unemployment. WPA was the Works Progress Administration which, like the CCC, gave jobs to millions of unemployed Americans by building new and improved roads (over 650,000 miles of roads were built by the WPA), hospitals, airports, and over 150,000 schools. About 8.5 million Americans were put back to work because of the WPA and programs like it, employing both men and women. Artists were greatly affected by the WPA because they were given finding to create more paintings and murals, which helped feed the creative needs many Americans could not fulfill when the economy was at its worse.