American Experience: The Civilian Conservation Corps
Name:________________________________________
Date:________________________ Period:___________
1. Did a lot of farmers know anything about basic fertilization or crop rotation?
2. Did most farmers practice good conservation techniques?
3. How did timber companies contribute to the ecological disaster during the 30s?
4. Why did they slaughter all of the cattle?
5. During the Great Depression who did most folks believe was responsible for the welfare of the needy?
6. Who “saved the country” from revolution?
7. What did many of FDR and the New Deal’s critics believe?
8. How quickly was Roosevelt able to get the CCC up and functioning?
9. What were the requirements of becoming part of the CCC?
10. Was the CCC segregated by race?
11. What department “ran” the CCC?
12. Why did many people not want the CCC to come to their area?
13. What role did the railroad play for the jobless during the Great Depression?
14. What was the age requirement for being in the CCC?
15. List some reasons why some of the interviewees liked the CCC.
16. Describe the average day of a CCCer.
17. Why was the CCC a “win-win” for FDR?
18. What is “conservation”?
19. How did Clifford Hammond’s camp solve a lot of their problems?
20. What types of vocational training took place?
21. How did the CCC camps help the local economies?
22. How did FDR do in the election of 1936?
23. How did the CCC help members become more understanding of different cultures?
24. How many trees is it estimated that the CCC planted? How many state parks?
25. What was the “axe that killed the CCC”?
26. How did the CCC help the U.S. win World War II?