Question

In order to make sure the Civilian Conservation Corps benefited families and communities, what were the thousands of young male CCC workers required to do?

Question 1 options:

Send more than 80% of their wages back home to their families.


Write letters to their siblings each week encouraging them to stay in school.


Move away from their homes and families until their parents found work.

Answer 1

Answer:  Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, with an executive order on April 5, 1933. The CCC was part of his New Deal legislation, combating high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

They were required to send 80% of their wages back home to their family's

Explanation:

Excerpt from the HISTORY channel page on the CCC:

"Each worker received $30 in payment per month for his services in addition to room and board at a work camp. The men were required to send $22 to 25 of their monthly earnings home to support their families."