20th Century Blog

The civilian conservation corps or the CCC was something the government came up with for unemployed people. Most of the workers were younger men. Most of them were 18 to 20 years old. They had to take a test to see if they were wanted as a worker there. They had to work for at least 6 months. They would make $30 a month but $22 to $25 would be sent back to their family.


One of the jobs the CCC offered was planning trees. They did this so were wouldn’t be another dust bowl. The dust bowl was a time when the earths soil was so used up that it was just dust. Every time there was some wind it would make a storm of dust. The government way to fight this was to plant trees so the soil would redevelop itself and there would not be no more dust bowls.