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Farming during The Great Depression (DUST BOWL (drought destroyed farming…
Farming during The Great Depression 
DUST BOWL
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Caused because of wind erosion. Destroyed millions of acres of land forcing tens of thousands of families to abandon their farms.
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Farmers leaving to find new work face unemployment and homlessness
WPA
President Franklin D. Roosevelt created this national program, and Congress approved it in 1935. This work/relief agency was one of the most important of the New Deal programs.
It provided many of the unemployed a job, an income, and self-respect.
Between the years of 1935 and 1943 the WPA provided about 8 million jobs. The cost over the 8 years was only 11 billion dollars.
CCC
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), one of the first emergency agencies, was established in early 1933
CCC's mission was two-fold: to reduce unemployment, especially among young men; and to preserve the nation's natural resources.
Many CCC projects centered around forestry, flood control, prevention of soil erosion, and fighting forest fires.
Changed the physical face of the United States. It constructed thousands of public buildings and bridges, more than 500,000 miles of roads, and 600 airports. It built stadiums, swimming pools, and sewage treatment plants.
FDR persuaded Congress to create a host of new agencies, whose initials soon became part of the language of politics—NRA, AAA, CCC. Never in American history had a president exercised such power or so rapidly expanded the role of the federal government in people’s lives.
The WPA paid low wages and it was not able to employ everyone — some five million were left to seek assistance from state relief programs
Although professing a nondiscriminatory policy, the CCC failed to give a fair share of work to blacks, especially in the South where local selection agents held sway.