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Jose M. & Austin B.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was first established March 21st, 1933. It was established as a public work relief program for unemployed men. It provided useful jobs such as conservation and development of natural resources all over the country. It lasted about 9 years, from 1933-1942, which was mainly the whole Depression. The CCC was developed to help lower the unemployment numbers during the Great Depression, and was also part of the New Deal program, which was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, the CCC was also responsible for being a general nature resource conservation program, which helped get needed resources to every U.S. state, including the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The CCC was one of the most popular New Deal programs, due to its major public economic relief, rehabilitation, and training for over 3 million men. The CCC also helped make people aware of our natural resources by starting an awareness program. No matter how much the CCC accomplished, everyone knew it wasn’t meant to be a permanent program. And so, on June 30th, 1942, Congress decided to stop funding the Civilian Conservation Corps.

During the whole time the CCC was active, their volunteers planted nearly 3 billion trees to help reforest America, and they constructed over 800 parks country wide, many of which would become state parks.

Now in our hometown of Milwaukee, WI, the CCC was responsible for stopping many forest fires in the Milwaukee area. The reports from a newspaper clipping say that the CCC helped replant 513,000 acres of trees in 1930, 640,000 acres in 1931, and 119,000 in 1932. If you do the math, then that’s over 1 million trees that were burned down in forest fires, and then replanted, in about a 4-year span.

** Briana and Alex WM **
The CWA was a New Deal program created in the fall of 1933 by Franklin Roosevelt to help people cope with the Great Depression. The CWA jobs were only temporary, to help people get back on their feet. 3 million workers were placed on hastily constructed federal projects. CWA workers built at least 500,000 miles of road and worked on thousands of schools, airports, parks and playgrounds. Milwaukee created 26,000 jobs for men in the years of 1930 to 1990.the government created 12,000 WPA. Jobs were created for in construction, education, health and office work for men and women alone. The largest project in Wisconsin was Linwood water filtration plant. They employed over 1,700 for a year. Using competitive bidding among unionized contractors, the PWA built local schools, Manitoba, Windlake, Cooper, school additions to Riverside, Cudahy, Shorewood, and Wauwatosa high schools, a Jones Island sewerage plant extension, and the Parklawn housing project, and other infrastructure projects.

Charles and Adam
The Federal Security Agency (FSA) was a agency that held responsibility for matters involving Social Security, education, drug regulation, and much more. In 1953 the FSA was disbanded and it endangered the Department of Health and other agencies. The FSA was part of the "Reorganization Act of 1939." The FSA first director was Paul V. McNutt. Secretly the FSA was developing chemicals and biological weapons.

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It was a program that was acted in the 1930s because of the great depression. It was a program to help out the unemployed. The New Deal program was one of the first thing President Roosevelt talked about doing once he was in office. The New Deal program was programs like business regulation, inflation, and etc... One of was the FSA Federal Security Agency. It was a program that had to do with stuff like the Social Security Act (SSA) and other programs, but it was becaus e of the Gr eat Depression.====== Wikipedia contributors. "Federal Security Agency." //Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia//. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 12 Apr. 2010. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

**Victoria and Tiffany**
In order to help people keep their houses, the HOLC (Home owners loan corporation), refinanced mortgages of middle-income homeowners. The AAA tried to raise farm prices. It used proceeds from a new tax to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals. Lower production would, in turn, increase prices.

The outcome was that Farmers killed off certain animals and crops because The AAA told them to. Many people could not believe that the federal government was condoning such an action when many Americans were starving. Declared unconstitutional happened later on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOLC http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/egd_01/egd_01_00264.html

Samantha and Anna
The Public Works Administration, or the PWA, was initiated by the New Deal government agency (1933). In the hope of publicizing and increasing employment, President Franklin Roosevelt created this agency to begin the construction of sundry public needs, such as public buildings, bridges, dams, and housing developments, and to make loans to states for similar projects.

It had an original appropriation of $3.3 billion and was to last two years, but Congress prolonged its operation. Following legislation continued its operation; under the term of office (1933–39) of Harold Ickes, the PWA wrapped up a great many public projects. Altogether, the PWA was responsible for building more than 34,000 projects at a total cost of about $6 billion. In 1937 its slum clearance and housing work was transferred to the U. S. Housing Authority. President Roosevelt's reorganization plan of 1939 made the PWA a division of the Federal Works Agency. The PWA was disbanded in the 1940s. []

Kyle and Chris
The SSA was the Social Security Act of 1930's the act had people pay a little money so that would let people get money that where at age of 65 or if they are out of work and while they looked for work. It helped the people of the United States get back on their feet and start making money. The Act was signed in August 14, 1935. This act helped thousands of people get the money to buy food and cloths.

Here is the preamble of the Social Security

" An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,"

Ariel Davids-Modschiedler
The WPA (Works Progress Administration) was an immense employment relief program that was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second New Deal, launched in spring 1935. The WPA employed millions of people to build thousands of miles of roads, schools, playgrounds, airports, and other buildings.

The WPA constructed many projects in the Milwaukee County parks system. During this time, WPA construction included six swimming pools, pavilions at Red Arrow and Brown Deer Parks, service buildings at Jacobus, Jackson and Whitnall Parks, the Botanical Garden administration building and golf club house at Whitnall Park, a bathhouse at Doctor's Park, a recreation center at Smith Park, new roads in nearly every park, and parkways throughout the county.

http://www4.uwm.edu/eti/WPAHistory.htm

**The Hoover Dam**
The Hoover dam is considered one of the largest dams. The Hoover damn was also known as the Boulder Dam. Hoover Dam, located 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas on U.S. 93, right on the border of Arizona and Nevada. They started building the dam on June 6, 1933. The Bureau of Reclamation, United States, built the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam is filled with 3.25 million cubic yards of concrete, enough to pave a strip 16 feet wide and 8 inches thick from San Francisco to New York City. The Hover Dam weighs about 6.6 million tons. The Hoover dam has storage of 9.2 trillion gallons of water in it reservoir, the lake mead. It has 17 power generators, which produce 2,000 megawatts of electricity.

At the Hoover Dam there are 3,500 employees at a time. It was estimated that it took 16,000 people to build the Hoover dam. The over all cost to build and keep the Hoover Dam was about $49,000,000. The Hoover dam is an important water source to the United States. The Hoover dam has storage of 9.2 trillion gallons of water. There were 114 deaths in the making the dam. There is a rumor that 96 bodies were buried in the dam. There is also that there were 20 suicides at the Hoover Damn, before the completion of the Dam. The dam was competed in 1936.

@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/hoover/ Amber and Trevor

Derek and Julian
The Banking Act of 1933 was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the USA. The Banking Act introduced banking reforms which were designed to control speculation of money. It was most commonly known as the Glass-Steagall Act. The FDIC is a United States government corporation which was started in 1933 as part of the Act. It provides deposit insurance, which makes sure banks stay safe. This means that deposits up to $250,000 for each person are guaranteed safe. The FDIC insures 8,195 institutions. The FDIC also keeps tract of certain financial institutions for safety.

The Banking Act of 1935 made it so that the F.D.I.C ( Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) would be a permanent government agency. The Banking Act of 1935 made sure that the deposit insurance stays at the 5,000 dollar level. The Credit Union Act was also passed in 1935. The Banking Act of 1933 was the original Banking Act that saved the banks that closed during the Great Depression. Two-thirds of those once closed banks had been restored thanks to the Banking Act of 1933. During the Great Depression, The Banking Act of 1935 was an extended version of the Banking Act of 1933. There were 9,027 state banks and 4,692 national banks that remained active until the 1980's. Twenty-six insured banks failed.

**Greenbelt Cities**

** J.R. **
Greendale, Wisconsin was part of the Greenbelt communities built between 1936 and 1938. Two other states, Maryland and Ohio, had Greenbelt cities also built during the Great Depression. These Greenbelt communities were built because planners wanted to make a new kind of suburban community, one which would combine the advantages of both city and country life. Also, these houses could provide reasonable rents for families that make an average income.  The government bought 3,400 acres of farmland for the Greendale project. It took two whole years to finish the community’s original houses. 572 total houses were built throughout the Greendale project. The government spent around 1,120,500 dollars altogether on the Greenbelt communities in Greendale, Wisconsin.

@http://www.reimanpub.com/Revise/VC2Greendale.asp?RefURL=&KeyCode=&tdate=&PMCode=&OrgURL=

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