the former US
federal agency (1933 - 1943), organized to utilize the nation's unemployed youth by building roads, planting trees, improving
parks, etc.
a former United
States government agency (1933- 1942) organized to provide
work for the nation's unemployed
single young men through developing and preserving the country's natural
resources (timber, soil and water).
Initiated during the
Great Depression (that
period of
economic crisis and lowered
business activity occurring in the United
States from 1929 through most of the 1930s) the Corps' participants received
job training and engaged in such activities as building roads, flood
barriers and dams, planting trees, laying telephone
lines, improving
parks and fighting forest fires.