One of the most popular of all the New Deal efforts to provide relief during the depression was the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC was designed to take young men who did not have jobs, place them in camps run with military discipline, and put them to work building public works projects, primarily reforestation and soil conservation. Much of this was done in national and state parks. This had two good effects. It meant that their families were relieved of the costs of feeding and clothing them, and they even received small amounts from their sons' pay to help meet their own expenses. At the same time, many permanent improvements were made to state and national parks. These young men are new enrollees at the CCC camp at Table Rock State Park, and are attending a lecture. CCC workers also built picnic shelters at Edisto Island, a bathhouse at Myrtle Beach, a shelter at Cheraw, and made improvements all over the state of South Carolina.
Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
Standards
- This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into how wartime government activities, the Progressive Movement, and the New Deal represented an expansion of federal power, including attempts to protect citizens.
- 5.2.P Summarize how the role of the federal government expanded during the period.
- This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into how the role of the government expanded during the Great Depression through the implementation of government programs. The indicator encourages inquiry into New Deal programs such as the Federal Dep...
- This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into military and economic policies during World War II, to include the significance of military bases in South Carolina. This indicator was also developed to foster inquiry into postwar economic developments and demographic changes, to include the immigration of Jewish refugees following the Holocaust.
- This indicator was constructed to facilitate inquiry into how economic conditions prompted an evolution of fiscal and monetary policy featuring significant turning points. This indicator also supports inquiry into the laissez-faire policies of the 1920s, the balance of free markets and government intervention of the 1930s, and the command economies during World War I and World War II.
